THE UNPUNISHED VICE: A LIFE OF READING

New York City, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 230 pages. Book-length account on subject. Edmund White's personal and literary summing-up. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Edmund White's "The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading". Reading as being alive, being alive as being a reader. "Sparkles with generosity. Every detail is alive and gleaming. It is also a book that floats above things, so light is its touch, so playful and joyous its execution: The essential allusiveness, wit, and sprezzatura of his work, its conversations with other books, its effortless ability to say profound things in un-sententious and gossamer-light ways" (The Guardian). "To look only at what a single English sentence can, in White's hands, become is to stand entranced before sensuous grace" (Cynthia Ozick). An absolute "must-have" title for Edmund White collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black ink-pen on the front free endpaper by the author: "For Felice, lots of love, Ed". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, who is named, is Felice Picano, the great American gay novelist and close friend of the author, which makes this an incomparable association copy. As such, it is the best such Edmund White signed copy we have ever seen. This title is a contemporary classic. This is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1994 for "Genet". Anointed by Vladimir Nabokov as his American successor. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER EDMUND WHITE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1635571170.