THE ART OF HUNGER AND OTHER ESSAYS - INSCRIBED TO PAUL MULDOON
London: The Menard Press, 1982. First Edition. Item #8758
First Printing, a trade paperback original. Octavo (21.5cm); original printed card wrappers; [4],5-95,[1]pp. This copy from the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, inscribed to him by Paul Auster on the title page: "For Paul M – Merry X-mas 1989 - In friendship / Paul A." Light wear to extremities, hint of sunning to spine, with some trivial dust-soil to wrappers; contents clean; Near Fine. An early collection of 11 essays Auster wrote between 1970-79, several of which first appeared in the pages of The New York Review of Books, Parnassus, Commentary, Mulch, and Derrière le Miroir. A warm inscription to Muldoon, Auster's friend and contemporary who lived near him in Brooklyn for many years. Drenttel A8.a. 8758.
Price: $650.00