A Star in the Family (Uncorrected Proof)

Garden City / New York: Doubleday & Company, 1975. Very good. Uncorrected proof; 11 3/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [376], text to recto only; textured, plain, light-blue wraps; title and publication in manuscript, in red ink to front wrap and a name to back wrap; working title - "the Great Goldwine" - corrected in manuscript; a bit of fading to margins and slight dust-dulling to spine cover; minor creasing to fore-edge; in very good condition.Irvin Faust (1924 - 2012) was a Jewish-American novelist, short story writer, and educator, his current book being one of his later works. "A Star in the Family" chronicled the rise and fall of comedian Bart Goldwine, who was the subject of a biography-in-progress.