Price: £65
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: [1960]
Stock Number: 70170
Southern (Terry)
The Magic Christian.
Description: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, pp. [x], 148, [1], crown 8vo, original black cloth with small pig-mask vignette to upper board stamped in pink, backstrip lettered in gilt, slight lean to spine, top edge pink, dustjacket lightly dustsoiled with the red lettering to the backstrip panel a little faded, a nick at head of rear panel with attendant creasing, some very shallow chipping at extremities, very good
Publication Details: New York: Random House, [1960]
Notes: Southern's blackly comic tale of an eccentric billionaire whose money and time is spent on elaborate practical jokes - it was made into a film at the end of the decade, starring Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers.
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