Description
The signed limited edition of The Dean’s December by Saul Bellow.
Octavo, [10], 312pp. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. Stated “First Harper & Row Edition” on copyright page with a full number line. Red topstain. In the publisher’s fine glassine dust jacket. Housed in the publisher’s issue slipcase, title blind stamped on side panel.
From a limited edition of 500 specially bound copies, this being number 434, signed by Saul Bellow on the limitation page.
Bellow’s first novel after receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Dean’s December follows Albert Corde, a Chicago university dean and former newspaperman, through crises in Chicago and Communist-era Bucharest.
