Humboldt's Gift

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1975,Third Edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. His eighth novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the title published just before he received the Nobel Prize. Also nominated for the National Book Award. "First published in 1975 by the Viking Press, Inc." No other printings stated. Front Flap of jacket states "0875." Back Flap states: "Publishers of the Viking Portable Library and Viking Compass paperbacks." Original half cloth boards in yellow and tan. Black lettering on binding of Title, Author and Publisher. Overall, boards in very good condition with slight rubbing on top of binding. Unclipped ($10) dustjacket, with design by Mel Williamson, has yellowing along the whole binding, along with some tears .Back cover of dustjacket is a photograph of Bellow. 487 pages in very good condition, with a few pages that have minor pencilled underlining by prior owner. "Humboldt's Gift" is a self-described "comic book about death," whose title character is modeled on the lyric poet Delmore Schwartz. Charlie Citrine, an intellectual, middle-aged author of award-winning biographies and plays, contemplates two significant figures and philosophies in his life: Von Humboldt Fleisher, a dead poet who had been his mentor, and Rinaldo Cantabile, a very-much-alive minor mafioso who has been the bane of Humboldt's existence. Humboldt had taught Charlie that art is powerful and that one should be true to one's creative spirit. Rinaldo, Charlie's self-appointed financial adviser, has always urged Charlie to use his art to turn a profit. At the novel's end, Charlie has managed to set his own course. N° de ref. del artículo 573

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