Various (Phillips, William (Editor); Rahv, Philip (Editor); Abel, Lionel; Bellow, Saul; Chester, Alfred; Dickey, James; Hardwick, Elizabeth; Hentoff, Nat; Mailer, Norman; Poirier, Richard; Sartre, Jean-Paul; Simon, John; Sontag, Susan et al.)

Partisan Review Vol. XXXII No. 2 (Spring 1965)

New York, NY, USA: The American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Inc., 1965. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage 1965 number of the venerable literary & cultural journal then-chiefly edited by William Phillips & Philip Rahv Features a (somewhat snooty if you ask us) review of Saul Bellow's (1915-2005) now-classic novel Herzog by Richard Poirier (1925-2009), the noted American literary critic who co-founded the canonical Library of America (pgs. 264-271). Also in this issue: A review of Behold Goliath, a story collection by the brilliant & doomed Alfred Chester, by John Simon; "The Fiend," a poem by James Dickey; Elizabeth Hardwick's savaging review of Norman Mailer's novel An American Dream ("...a fantasy of vengeful murder, callous copulations and an assortment of dull cruelties..."); "Is There a New Radicalism?," an essay by the legendary muckraking journalist Nat Hentoff; a critique of the canonical French Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre's autobiographical work The Words by Lionel Abel; Susan Sontag's critical essay on Peter Weiss's play Marat/Sade & the Dada playwright Antonin Artaud; & much more. With fascinating contemporary ads for booksellers, publishers at first & final several leaves. Trade-format softcover in sewn binding, presumed first-&-only printing. From the collection of Laurence Goldstein (1943-2023), a renowned poet, author, film critic, editor & academician here at the University of Michigan. A rich & rewarding issue in this most-collectible series, in its singularly rarest original form & with distinguished provenance. In relatively quite near-fine condition with mild rubbing, age-toning, faint scratching & occasional spotting to front, back covers & spine; light wear & some tiny bumps, creases at/from edges & corners of same; small areas esp. at spine-edges, corners with minimal loss of paper, surface paper; ancient, very low price hand-written by long-ago seller in red ink at blank upper right margin of front cover (we have discounted this to mitigate the irony); very small red dot sticker affixed to blank area near upper edge of spine; light rubbing & mild spotting to edges of text block esp. upper edge. Interior fine-to-very-fine with only light age-toning to inner covers; tiny bumps, faint creases at corners of some page leaves. Near Fine. [Item #7787]

Price: $40.00