Author: William Brammer
Title: The Gay Place
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1961 . First edition. Cloth. An advance review copy of the first edition of Willie Lee Brammer's celebrated novel, widely acclaimed as one of the best American political novels ever written. An 'advance copy for friends in the book trade', with 'first printing' to colophon.In the original paper wraps.Billy Lee ('William') Brammer's series of three interlocking novellas, published as a single work, take place in an unnamed state identical to Texas. Each of the novellas - The Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper and Country Pleasures - follows a different protagonist: Roy Sherwood, a member of the state legislature; Neil Christiansen, the state's junior senator; and Jay McGown, the governor's speechwriter. Brammer won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award for the book in 1960Inscription of Lucille Hageman to the front pastedown. In the publisher's original paper wraps. A touch of fading to back strip, with handling marks to wraps. Light rubbing to joints. Front hinge a touch strained, but firmly held. Inscription to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: The Gay Place Billy Lee Brammer political novel The Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper and Country Pleasures. Billy Lee Brammer None


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