Description: WARLOCK • 1st Edition, First Printing • Oakley Hall • 1958. Warlock - 1st/1st Hall, Oakley Viking Press, 1958 SEE ATTACHED PHOTOS FOR DESCRIPTION OF CONDITION Hardcover Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good 1st Edition. New York: The Viking Press, 1958. First edition. 8vo. 471 pp. Very good book in a very good or better jacket. Hardcover boards in very good condition, oatmeal cloth covered boards with marbled red spine cover. Spine ends and corners show slight wear but remarkably well-preserved with sharp board corners. Beautiful, rich ruby-colored top stain, and deckled page edges. Previous sellers price notation ffep. Otherwise text block solid and square, with strong binding. Beautiful book. (See photos) Dust jacket in very good condition for its age, with $4.95 price intact. Deep vibrant red crossed pistols badge in field of dark black. Some shelf wear effecting entire jacket. There is significant wear and chipping centered around the jacket spine ends with creasing, chipping, and loss at the edges of top and base. Wear and some slight loss to corners and along jacket panel edges. Perceptible toning to back panel edges of jacket, and edges of interior flaps. (See photos) First edition of this classic of American West literature. Octavo, original half cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Charles Egri and Evelyn Curro. Why this book is important: As a novelist, Oakley Hall is best known for “The Downhill Racers,” a novel which was made into a movie of the same name, starring Robert Redford. He has written about 20 other works of fiction and nonfiction, in addition to Warlock. Warlock was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1958. Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining of modern American novels but a lasting contribution to American fiction. Warlock the novel was famously instrumental in the cannon of literature which contributed to the work of Richard Farina, and the enigmatic author, Thomas Pynchon. “‘Also in '59 we simultaneously picked up on what I still think is among the finest of American novels, Warlock, by Oakley Hall. We set about getting others to read it too, and for a while had a micro-cult going. Soon a number of us were talking in Warlock dialogue, a kind of thoughtful, stylized, Victorian Wild West diction.’ This may have appealed to Farina partly as another method of maintaining Cool. ‘The first time I read Been Down. . . was in manuscript, an early drafts in the summer of 1963. I remember giving him a lot of free advice, though I've forgotten what it was exactly. But fortunately he didn't take any of it. He must have wondered if I thought we were still back in writing class. Later, having rewritten it, ten pages from the end of the final draft, his hand went out on him. Did you hear about my Paralyzed Hand?’ he wrote in a letter. ‘Why Tom old boy’-- Warlock talk-- ‘I woke up this here otherwise promising morning with a clump of inert floppy for a hand.’” Thomas Pynchon. Copyright © 1995-97 “San Narciso Community College” Warlock is the basis for the 1958 film directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, and Dorothy Malone. More Photos upon request. Please examine photos which are included as part of the description. If you have questions about an item for sale please ask before purchase, and request additional photos. Book Grading* and description FINE ~ Marginally less than perfect, and may designate a book that is still new, or a book that has been carefully read. The use of the term Fine (as compared to Near Fine or Very Good) often depends on when the book was published. A recent book should have no notable defects at all. But the dustjacket of a Fine older book may have a small closed tear, or be a little rubbed, even a bit worn at the edges. Such defects, if present, must be minor and should always be noted. (Note also that a book may be new and unread, but it may have aged on the shelf to the point of being considered Near Fine or even Very Good. Similarly a unique 200-year-old book might be viewed as "Fine", while a recent book in the exact same condition could only be described as "Very Good".) NEAR FINE ~ Somewhere between Very Good and Fine. The distinction is usually in the eye of the bookseller and involves minor defects (always described). Near Fine is generally meant to inform the customer that the condition is excellent but "not quite Fine". VERY GOOD ~ A used book that shows shelfwear and visible signs of having been read. 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A book which is in very good condition with notable defects can also be unread-in fact this is common. “Unread” does not mean free of defects, but means just not read, and it’s hallmark is that the front board of the book does not flop open perpendicular to the text block when the book is placed flat on its spine. The boards retain some stiffness at the hinges and tend to cling to the text block. Unread does not mean never opened. An unread book is more desirable than one with boards that flop open when unsupported, and so “Unread” should be noted in a description if present.
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: Oakley Hall
Region: North America
Publisher: Viking
Topic: Westerns
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1958