Joe Gould's Secret (Modern Library ISBN Series, Spine 17)

A Modern Library edition presenting Joseph Mitchell's biography of Joseph Ferdinand Gould, best known simply as "Joe Gould," the son of an established Massachusetts family and Harvard grad. Mr. Gould chose to make a subsistence living in Greenwich Village, keeping a voluminous diary on numerous dime-store notebooks. This work first appeared as two separate articles in the New Yorker magazine, and was made into a movie starring Ian Holm. With frontis photographic portrait of Joe Gould and a couple of Saul Steinberg cartoons from the New Yorker. Includes a brief biographical sketch of the author. --- In Toledano spine 17 / grey cloth / blindstamped torchbearer device to cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / Bernhard endpapers / jacket style r with a photographic portrait of Mr. Mitchell on cover and spine, verso blank. --- With prior owner's circular embossed stamp to half-title page, else a bright, clean, unmarked copy. Unclipped, newish jacket ($13.50) with slight back panel rubbing, otherwise lacking apparent damages and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; vii, [9], 186, [4] pages

Product Info

ISBN: 0679601848

ISBN-13: 9780679601845

Publisher: The Modern Library / Random House

Year: 1996

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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