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SOUTHERN Terry : Flash and Filigree

Andre Deutsch, London, 1958

8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. unclipped DW evenly lightly dust soiled, feps offset toned, faint pencil to fep, some light foxing from being dusty to top edge and fore edge DW fold, 204pp author was screenwriter for Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, Cincinatti Kid , Barbarella, and co-author of Easy Rider, UK first edition precedes the American Edition. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good

First Edition

SOUTHERN**, TERRY: : Flash and Filigree.**

LONDON.ANDRE DEUTSCH,1958.

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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[True 1st,precedes the US,1st edn.] NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,5-colour block (red, black,white,grey and yellow),pictorial illustrated dw/dj by Stephen Russ; minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to top edge - none to bottom edge - with head of spine/ backstrip minisculely bumped and creased with a couple of tiny,tiny closed nicks to same,rear panel minimally marked.Top edge coloured(?) and lightly dust-soiled,fore-edge slightly aged but cleaner; contents bright,tight and clean.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,original plain red cloth boards and clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,7-204pp includes half-title+title pages,31 chapters. 'And what,Mr Treevly,seems to be the trouble?' From behind his desk at the smart Hauptman Clinic in California, Doctor Frederick Eichner, the world's leading dermatologist, puts the usual question.The answer he gets is so extraordinary that he feels compelled to stun Mr Treevly with an onyx paperweight. That is the beginning of a realtionship of persecution and suspicion which drags the doctor through a car smash, shady bars,a television studio,a hashish party and a court of law.His adventures, hough so varied,never carry the story far from the chaste precincts of the Clinic where pretty Babs Mintner,a junior nurse,is pouting and protesting her way towards seduction.In this novel prosaic incidents blossom into bizarre developments which have the sharpened reality usually only encountered in dreams.They are sometimes spine-chilling but more often comic.To describe the book as funny would be to oversimplify it,but it is through the comedy,a strange blend of violence and delicacy,that it charms - in the sense of hallucinates.Like Doctor Eichner himself, the reader may sometimes wonder dizzily what is happening to him, but he will never doubt that it is happening.Mr Southern will have got him in his power. Debut novel from a US writer,probably better known for his screenplays,amongst them,Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964), Cincinatti Kid (1966), Barbarella (1967), or as co-author of Easy Rider (1968).An exceptional,clean and sound copy of a scarce,sought-after title. Please contact seller,due to the value if this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,the stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.