Setting Free the Bears.
IRVING, John.
Setting Free the Bears.
First Edition of the Author's Rare First Book Setting Free The Bears; Inscribed by John Irving
New York: Random House, 1968.
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First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Tony, with my appreciation John Irving.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carl Weiss. Illustration by Robert Dale. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
With the publication of Setting Free the Bears, the Saturday Review prophetically called Irving "astonishing A writer of uncommon imaginative power. Whatever he writes, it will be worth reading." "Setting Free the Bears is the most nourishing, satisfying comedy I have read in years. I admire the hell out of it" (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.).
