B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S J A N U A R Y 2 0 2 5 16 * * * FIRST EDITION OF GADDIS' FIRST BOOK, THE RECOGNITIONS, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HIM 16. GADDIS, William. The Recognitions. New York, 1955. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. $3200 First edition of Gaddis’ important first novel, inscribed and signed by Gaddis on the half title: “For Don Kaufmann (all problems understood), William Gaddis. Sarasota, June 1977.” “The Recognitions is an astonishing first novel… the subsequent course of post-war American fiction has confirmed Gaddis’s achievement: his erudite and sophisticated satire on the mechanisation of human emotion and commercialisation of religious and artistic experience provides the model for many later (and better-known) writers” (Parker, 319-20). Book fine, dust jacket very nearly so. A lovely copy, quite scarce and desirable inscribed.
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