first edition Hardcover
1973 · New York
by Gardner, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394488830 . [very nice copy, no discernible wear to book at all; jacket just a bit faded at spine, a few tiny rubbed spots at a couple of corners]. (sepia-tone etchings) Gardner's sixth novel, an unconventional love story set in a small community in the Catskills in the 1950s, about a 42-year-old man who marries a 17-year-old girl who's pregnant with the child of a local boy. . (Inventory #: 18248)