The Orchid Stories
Garden City, NY: Paris Review Edition / Doubleday, 1973. Jacket painting by Joe Brainard. First Edition, stated. Hardcover octavo in illustrated dust jacket. Red blind stamped cloth backed with black spine bearing gilt-stamped lettering. Publisher's maroon endpapers. 247pp. First Edition of Elmslie's experimental romans-a-clef, loosely inspired by Mann's Buddenbrooks and strange enough to be excerpted and included in a science-fiction anthology from Thomas Disch. Near Fine in a Very Good unclipped jacket, lightly scuffed and edge worn. Item #2774
Price: $60.00
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