RETREAT FROM OBLIVION

by David Goodis

$2,000 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1939. First Edition. The author's first published novel, a story of tangled love affairs between a group of New Yorkers, set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War and Sino-Japanese War. The novel received favorable enough reviews to encourage Goodis to leave his job at an advertising agency and move to New York to pursue writing full-time. A scarce title in jacket, and one

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