The Bachelors' Bride: A Novel [Inscribed to Andy Warhol]

New York & London: Marion Boyars Publishers, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.75cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [9],10-270,[2]pp. Andy Warhol's copy, with his bookplate mounted to upper front pastedown, and inscribed to him by the author on the front endpaper: "To Andy / You have only one short walk-on part in this book, but it absolutely makes the scene. Meanwhile, people say this book is a guess-who book, and it isn't true / Best / Stephen Koch / October, 1986 / New York." Some light, scattered staining to right edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $18.95 / £10.95), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn (particularly at the spine ends), with some very subtle tanning to the edges on verso; Near Fine. The author's second novel, set between Manhattan's art world and gay underground scene, and centered around a charismatic artist who surrounds himself with a group of acolytes known as 'The Bunch.' "Sex, stimulants and The Supremes – the sixties! This is an enthralling journey into a past that feels like the present and, by using the volatile relationships of 'The Bunch' as a counterpoint to the explosive collision of modernism and pop culture in art..." (from rear flap). Koch – novelist, essayist, and executor of Peter Hujar's estate – was close to Warhol and his circle. He wrote Stargazer: Andy Warhol's World and His Films in 1973, and wrote him into this novel, which, in the last interview before his death, the artist mentioend he wanted to make into a film. A significant association copy. 82034. (Inventory #: 82034)