Malcolm: A Play by Edward Albee & James Purdy [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1966

Malcolm - The Play adapted by Edward Albee based on the novel by James Purdy

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1966] ATHENEUM

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  

Dust jacket has a sealed tear with some surrounding creasing as well as some general edge wear; otherwise very nice.  Now housed in a new brodart jacket protector.

Book itself is near mint w. a few minor blemishes to cloth.  Beautiful copy!

Adapted from the novel by James Purdy. Introduced simply as the boy on the bench, the titular character of Malcolm is a Candide-like figure who is picked up by the most famous astrologer of his period and introduced to a series of increasingly absurd characters and bizarre situations in the most prodigiously funny book to streak across these heavy-hanging times.