The Recognitions.

First Edition of William Gaddis' The Recognitions; Inscribed by Him

The Recognitions.

GADDIS, William.

Item Number: 14062

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955.

First edition of the author’s early masterpiece. Thick Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Anthony Friedrich Tony- I hope one day you may find something in her of value William Gaddis 8 December 1974.” Fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the foot of the crown of the spine.

The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural critique, which, even if Heller and Pynchon hadn't read it while composing "Catch-22" and "V.," managed to anticipate the spirit of both"--"The Recognitions" is a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasingly thin line between the counterfeit and the fake. Gaddis anticipates by almost half a century the crisis of reality that we currently face, where the real and the virtual are combining in alarming ways, and the sources of legitimacy and power are often obscure to us. The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005.

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