“IN THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP,WE ARE ALL TERMINAL CASES”: FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY JOHN IRVING
IRVING, John. The World According to Garp. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1978). Octavo, original half navy cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition of Irving’s fourth and most famous novel, inscribed on the half title in blue ink: “For Betsy, who runs a very nice bookstore — John Irving.”
Winner of the 1980 National Book Award, World According to Garp “is the novel which made Irving’s name on both sides of the Atlantic” (Parker, 527-8). “Irving’s talent for storytelling is so bright and strong that he fully re-creates our time with its lurid and unending public melodrama” (Books of the Century, 513). Ownership signature of inscribee.
A fine inscribed copy.