RUN AWAY HOME by Mark, Charles Christopher - 1960

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library book, still in quite good condition, laminated cover and usual ex-lib type of markings. Pages are all intact and clean other than a couple small spots seen. Jacket, which is attached to book, has some scuffing and light soiling, light fading to spine area. Author's First Novel. Young Stefan crosses from adolescence to manhood during this crucial day and night of his life. In rapid sequence he experiences his first love affair, an all-night drinking and soul-searching session with his wonderfully amusing pals, and a man-sized terrible fight with his mother. The next day finds Stefan calmer, but still tormented and emotional, changes, more grown up and full of the knowledge that he will never again be as he was. (390noto,0814) ; 8vo .

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1960). First Edition. Hardcover. [minimal wear to book, a nice clean copy; jacket is sunned a bit along the spine, with a few tiny edge-tears and nicks, a small sticker scar/remnant on rear panel (affecting just a few words of the rear-cover blurb)]. The author's first (and apparently only) novel, about a young man "crossing the line from adolescence to manhood" in a single 24-hour period: "In rapid sequence he experiences his first love affair, an all-night drinking and soul-searching session with his anxious but wonderfully funny and human pals, and a man-sized, terrible row with his mother." The author's rear-jacket bio describes about a dozen or so early-in-life work experiences ("the customary writer's apprenticeship"), but by the time this book appeared he seems to have settled into the life of an arts administrator and educator, with a number of later non-fiction works on his… Read More