Author: Horowitz, Gene
Title: Mr. Jack and the Greenstalks
Description: New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (1970). (1970). New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (1970). (1970). Very good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY GENE HOROWITZ - Octavo, cloth-backed boards in an illustrated dust wrapper. The price-clipped dust jacket is lightly chipped. 384 pages. There are small areas of light soiling to the fore- edge with soiling to the front edge of 1 page. Very good.

First edition.

Inscribed in December, 1969 on the front endpaper and signed "Gene and Stanley".

Stanley Herman was Gene Horowitz's lover. "At 24, Mr. Herman met Gene Horowitz, a teacher and writer, with whom he would live for 39 years." "'Love at first sight,' Mr. Herman says, recalling the meeting. 'The second I met him I knew it, knew it, knew it! I looked at him and thought, 'What is that?'". -- [Quoted from the September 11, 1998 New York Times column by Joyce Walder: "Public Lives; Designer Looks Back with Pain and Pride"]. Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; FICTION; NOVEL; MR. JACK AND THE GREENSTALKS; GENE HOROWITZ; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; GARMENT CENTER; GARMENT INDUSTRY; READY-TO-WEAR FASHION; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; STANLEY HERMAN.

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