first edition
1956 · Boston
by Eugene Burdick
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); x,[2],332pp. Publisher's light green cloth in price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. Jacket extremities rubbed, lightly soiled, some dampstaining, most noticeable on jacket verso (not affecting boards), and small ring of likely dampstaining to front panel. Textblock bottom edge rubbed, else Very Good and sound.
The political analyst's first book, a novel depicting the astronomical rise and fall of an American politician, based on "a study of 'irrational' trends in politics." The work was awarded the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. (Inventory #: 31231)
The political analyst's first book, a novel depicting the astronomical rise and fall of an American politician, based on "a study of 'irrational' trends in politics." The work was awarded the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. (Inventory #: 31231)
