Barth, John

Giles Goat-Boy: Or, The Revised New Syllabus (Signed)

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966.
Limited First Edition. Hardcover.

#234 of a limited edition of 250 copies, signed by the author.

Barth’s groundbreaking satirical novel of human George Giles, raised as a goat-boy, who makes his way to Tammany College, comes to perceive himself as the much anticipated Grand Tutor (read Messiah), and ponders the meaning of everything.

Item #900991

6-1/4 x 9-3/8", beige cloth, embossed title front board, brown title spine, faint gold endpapers, 710pp, publisher's disclaimer, cover-letter to the editors and publisher, posttape, postscript to the posttape, footnote to the postscript to the posttape.

A remarkable copy, clean, crisp, square, very fine in a fine slip-case with a tiny bit of rubbing to extreme corners.

Price: $175.00