Cockpit by Jerzy Kosiński SIGNED! [FIRST EDITION] 1975 • Houghton Mifflin

Cockpit by Jerzy Kosiński

FIRST EDITION [1975] HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

Second Printing / 1975. 

*Front endpaper has been flat-inscribed "With Every Best Wish" and signed by Jerzy Kosiński

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.   Dust jacket has two mid-sized sealed tears (One along spine; one on upper rear) -- otherwise very attractive, clean and vibrant.   Looks great in a new HQ brodart jacket protector. 

Book itself is excellent; some light wear to cloth.   Clean, tight and reads like new.

From the acclaimed author of Being There and The Painted Bird, this "dazzling succession of . . . erotic anecdotes . . . brilliantly def[ies] the limitations of its form" (The New York Times Book Review).

An agent known only as Tarden is a former operative of the mysterious security agency "the Service." He has erased himself from all dossiers and transcripts. Now a fugitive, he moves across the landscape free of identity, in search of adventure and intrigue. But Tarden is a man of many disguises, and he is alternately avenger and savior, judge and trickster, as he enters the lives of others, forcing them into the arena of his judgment.  In Cockpit, Kosinski is at his most startling and powerful, stripping away pretension and illusions of security to reveal the source of real strength within.