Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1965.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1965. First edition, correct first issue (with first line of type on p. 270 duplicated on top of p. 271). Octavo, 272 pp. Original brown cloth, front cover blind-stamped, spine panel stamped in black, top edge of text block stained brown, brown endpapers. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #3118. $450. One of the classics of modern literature. The story of how a young boy survives the horrors of WWII in Europe. The author was born in Poland in 1933 and came to the U.S. in 1957. "Although there is nothing overtly fantastic in the book, the extremity of the events rendered in meticulous detail by the boy's flat, almost clinically detached voice gives the novel the feeling of a long, protracted surrealistic nightmare." -- Barron (ed.) Horror Literature, 4-195. Listed (with an asterisk) in the appendix to King's Danse Macabre. Jones & Newman (eds.) Horror: 100 Best Books (#62).

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