DONLEAVY, J.P.
The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B.
New York: Seymour Lawrence Book/ Delacorte Press , 1968.
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Inscribed by J.P. Donleavy to his Publisher Seymour Lawrence
First edition of the author's comic masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author to his publisher Seymour Lawrence in the year of publication, "To Seymour Lawrence October 29, 1968 J.P. Donleavy." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing.
J.P. Donleavy and Seymour Lawrence first met in 1961, and had been corresponding regarding Donleavy’s work in progress A Fairy Tale of New York. Donleavy gave Lawrence The Ginger Man to publish, which, in association with Delacorte/Dell, came out in 1965 (the first complete and unexpurgated edition published in the U.S.) to great success. Lawrence built a remarkable list of important authors, including: Thomas Berger, Richard Brautigan, Kurt Vonnegut, William Styron, Jim Harrison, William Saroyan, Frank Conroy and several Nobel Laureates.
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