Picture This
HELLER, Joseph
Picture This
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1988
8vo., green cloth-backed blue boards, lettered in gilt; decorative gilt border to title, with cornerpieces; lettered and decorated in gilt to spine; rust-coloured endpapers; together in the unclipped pictorial dustwrapper ($19.95), featuring a design and illustration by Paul Bacon, with a black and white photograph of the author to the lower panel by Mariana Cook; pp. [xii], 13-352; a near-fine copy, with minor splash marks to upper edge of boards; the dustwrapper similarly marked at the upper edge, most evidently to the verso; with a couple of minor marks.
First US edition, with full number line 1-10. This copy signed by the author to the front free endpaper.
Heller’s fifth novel, which discusses a single painting (Rembrandt van Rijn's Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer), over the course of history.
HELLER, Joseph
Picture This
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1988
8vo., green cloth-backed blue boards, lettered in gilt; decorative gilt border to title, with cornerpieces; lettered and decorated in gilt to spine; rust-coloured endpapers; together in the unclipped pictorial dustwrapper ($19.95), featuring a design and illustration by Paul Bacon, with a black and white photograph of the author to the lower panel by Mariana Cook; pp. [xii], 13-352; a near-fine copy, with minor splash marks to upper edge of boards; the dustwrapper similarly marked at the upper edge, most evidently to the verso; with a couple of minor marks.
First US edition, with full number line 1-10. This copy signed by the author to the front free endpaper.
Heller’s fifth novel, which discusses a single painting (Rembrandt van Rijn's Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer), over the course of history.
HELLER, Joseph
Picture This
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1988
8vo., green cloth-backed blue boards, lettered in gilt; decorative gilt border to title, with cornerpieces; lettered and decorated in gilt to spine; rust-coloured endpapers; together in the unclipped pictorial dustwrapper ($19.95), featuring a design and illustration by Paul Bacon, with a black and white photograph of the author to the lower panel by Mariana Cook; pp. [xii], 13-352; a near-fine copy, with minor splash marks to upper edge of boards; the dustwrapper similarly marked at the upper edge, most evidently to the verso; with a couple of minor marks.
First US edition, with full number line 1-10. This copy signed by the author to the front free endpaper.
Heller’s fifth novel, which discusses a single painting (Rembrandt van Rijn's Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer), over the course of history.