Title: Setting Free the Bears Author: Irving, John Place: New York Publisher: Random House Date: [1968] Description: (8vo) original cloth-backed boards, pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. First issue jacket with "1/69" printed on the lower rear flap. The author's first novel about a contemporary Don Quixote and Sancho Panza set in post-World War II Vienna. Laid in is a typed letter from Irving on William Morrow letterhead to an appreciative reader and with a long paragraph on the hate mail he receives, mostly from women claiming to be victims of pornography. Initialed by Irving at the close. Letter dated April 29, 1992. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket a touch shorter than the book; minor wear; near fine. Item number: 282175
Title: Setting Free the Bears Author: Irving, John Place: New York Publisher: Random House Date: [1968] Description: (8vo) original cloth-backed boards, pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. First issue jacket with "1/69" printed on the lower rear flap. The author's first novel about a contemporary Don Quixote and Sancho Panza set in post-World War II Vienna. Laid in is a typed letter from Irving on William Morrow letterhead to an appreciative reader and with a long paragraph on the hate mail he receives, mostly from women claiming to be victims of pornography. Initialed by Irving at the close. Letter dated April 29, 1992. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket a touch shorter than the book; minor wear; near fine. Item number: 282175
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