Doctor Cobb's Game

(New York): Bernard Geis Associates, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Quarto: 532 pp.; 22 cm. Presented to Peter Taylor, with a typed letter Signed by the author in ink tipped in: "Dear Peter, Herewith is my new novel. I trust it will confirm, as our friend Jim D. says, what we have always known about me. With that overwhelming ambiguity I offer it to your hands. It was awfully good seeing you in June. Let's make it again soon. Best, Verlin." Near fine with some light soiling to the extremities, in a near fine dustwrapper. Peter Taylor was one of America's best short story writers, and winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1985 PEN/Faulkner Award.