Author: Richler, Mordecai
Title: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Description: Don Mills, ON, Andre Deutsch Limited, 1959. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 319. 8vo. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Slight spine slant, contents a bit age-toned, ink gift inscription; very good. Unclipped jacket shows a couple of repaired tears, a few small chips, minor general shelfwear. Previous owner inscription (Dated 1959). Richler's fourth novel established his reputation as a major novelist. It is an "amusing, well-paced story of an ambitious and amoral youth who develops into a ruthless manipulator of business deals." (-Story,Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature.) This is the true first edition, published by the British publisher Andre Deutsch through its Canadian office near Toronto, Ontario. Curiously, the book was printed in Holland. Bound in carmine cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. .

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