DIVINE DAYS

by FORREST, Leon

$1,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · In dust jacket

Oak Park, IL: Another Chicago Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Cover art by sculptor Richard Hunt. Thick 8vo, 1138pp., gray cloth. Laid in, archivally, is Forrest's obituary. This Pulitzer-nominated novel had a first printing of only 1500 copies. On Christmas Day, 1992, an electrical fire in the publisher's office damaged all the remaining copies, of which about ten smoke-damaged copies were salvaged. Forrest was an English Professor at Northwestern University. He inscribed this copy, "Love to "Connie [Reuveni] / good luck with your bookstore / Best Wishes / Leon Forrest." Connie owned the Booknook Parnassus used bookstore in Evanston, so this is not one of the smoke-damaged copies. Critic John Cawelti called this, "The ULYSSES of Chicago's South Side." It covers a week in February, 1966. in the life of Joubert Jones, and "as a way of re-creating the spirit of those times, ... Forget the other hype. This is a legitimately rare modern first edition ! Blurbed by 2 winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature ( Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison). Cover art by sculptor Richard Hunt. NOTE: the new 2023 edition incorporates hundreds of editorial changes Forrest wanted included here, but wer not.

• Publisher: Another Chicago Press
• Year: 1992
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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