CAMP CONCENTRATION

by Thomas M. Disch

$2,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition · Signed

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Disch to David H. David G. Hartwell on the front free endpaper. In a near future American authoritarian dystopia the hero, a poet, is inducted into a secret military experiment to maximize soldiers' intelligence. Infected with a syphilis-type bug he becomes a genius as his body begins to fall apart. There is a

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