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COLWIN, LAURIE - Passion and Affect

Title: Passion and Affect
Description: NY: The Viking Press, 1974. 0670541370. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0670541370. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over blue boards, silver and blue lettering on spine, silver medallion on cover, fore-edge deckle. Includes 14 short stories. This is Laurie Colwin's first book. "Colwin is ingenious, comedic and spirited."-- Maxine Kumin, Boston Globe. "Colwin has single-handedly revitalized the short story"-- Los Angeles Times. Laurie Colwin (1944-1992) is the author of five novels: Happy All the Time; Family Happiness; Goodbye Without Leaving; Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object; and A Big Storm Knocked It Over; three collections of short stories: Passion and Affect, Another Marvelous Thing, and The Lone Pilgrim; and two collections of essays: Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. Scarce. Boards lightly sunned along top and bottom edges only, as is typical of this edition; otherwise the volume is in as new condition, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket, now in Mylar, is in perfect condition. NEAR FINE/FINE. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (viii), 179 pp. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0670541370 Literature; Short Stories First Edition Novels, Poetry & Literature Short Stories Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

Price: US$ 80.00 Seller: Round Table Books, LLC
- Book number: 26208

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