Henderson the Rain King.

“IN AN AGE OF MADNESS, TO EXPECT TO BE UNTOUCHED BY MADNESS IS A FORM OF MADNESS”: FIRST EDITION OF SAUL BELLOW'S HENDERSON THE RAIN KING

Henderson the Rain King.

BELLOW, Saul.

Item Number: 34855

New York: The Viking Press, 1959.

First edition of the author’s fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket that shows some rubbing and wear. Jacket painting by Bill Preston.

Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards, for The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler’s Planet, in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellow’s oeuvre [as] both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." Henderson the Rain King was named one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century by Modern Library.

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