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Beattie, Ann. - The Burning House.

Title: The Burning House.
Description: New York: Random House, (1982). (1982). INSCRIBED BY ANN BEATTIE TO HANS NAMUTH AND SIGNED IN FULL - Octavo, cloth-backed boards in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped. The dust jacked is rubbed with the extremities darkened and with the head & tail of its spine chipped. There is creasing to the dust jacket flaps. [ix] & 256 pages. There is offsetting to the front pastedown & endpaper where something has been laid in. There is minor soiling to the top edge. Very good in a good dust wrapper.

First edition.

Inscribed by the author to photographer Hans Namuth: "A rayograph reproduction with some accompanying stories. / With best wishes-- / Ann Beattie / New York 1984". Namuth's blind stamp is above the inscription on the front endpaper.

Hans Namuth [1915-1990] was a German-born photographer who specialized in portraiture, photographing many visual artists, including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Rauschenberg. Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; AMERICAN LITERATURE; FICTION; SHORT STORIES; AMERICAN AUTHOR; ANN BEATTIE; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; PHOTOGRAPHER; HANS NAMUTH; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
- Book number: 31772

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