Item #39327 YOUNG ADAM.
YOUNG ADAM.

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YOUNG ADAM.

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1961. First UK edition and the first edition in hardcover. Dw. design by August von Briesen.

A more 'literary' version of Trocchi's novel, originally published under the pseudonym 'Francis Lengel' by Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press in 1954.

Edges slightly spotted, o/w Very Good plus in dw., with slight soiling to flap extremities. Small ownership label of Alexis Lykiard to front free endpaper (Lykiard wrote the introduction to "Wholly Communion", in which he describes Trocchi as having "done a difficult job well" in compering the International Poetry Incarnation).

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