The Year of Living Dangerously
C[hristopher] J. Koch. The Year of Living Dangerously. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. First American edition.
Octavo. 296pp. Publisher's black hardcover paper boards, spine lettered in silver, original unclipped dust jacket.
McMurtry and Koch were colleagues and friendly rivals, both being alums of the 1960-61 Stegner Fellowship Class in Fiction at Stanford University. Both lived in San Francisco at the time and McMurtry would drive them to their classes at Stanford twice a week.
From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate.
Minor shelfwear; dampstained to upper textblock edge; jacket rubbed and sunned, dampstained to verso. Very good. Item #1961Price: $250.00
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