The Painted Bird Lengthily Inscribed to Allan Elsner

by Jerzy Kosinski

$1,250 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. First Printing, first state, with extraneous line at the top of p.270 struck-through by Kosinski himself, using the same pen he used to write the inscription. Octavo 21cm ; brown cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and author's name in blind on front panel; brown topstain; dustjacket; xii ,272, 4 pp. Lengthily inscribed by the

• Printing: first

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