Faust, Irvin; Bruccoli, MatthewBiblio.com
Jim Dandy marked-up manuscript of novel — inscribed to Matthew Bruccoli 1994
19940082047New York: Carroll and Graf 1994. Loose in Folder. Very Good. Photocopy of the typescript heavily marked by an editor or perhaps the author himself inscribed by Faust first in 10/94 and then again in March 1995 “This is Matt Bruccoli’s page as J. D. is in many ways his book…Gratefully Irv Faust 3/10/95.†Housed in homemade blue cloth chemise and slipcase light wear to slipcase. Lots of marks edits etc. to the typescript probably not in Bruccoli’s hand. Faust was a well esteemed novelist and short story author. Broccoli was a prominent editor biographer and bibliographer known for his work on Hemingway and Fitzgerald especially. This novel Faust’s last book would have appealed to Bruccoli an expert on pre-WWII European culture and literature of the 1920s-30s. The hero is Hollis Cleveland a small-time African-American crook and dandy in Harlem. In 1936 he absconds with a suitcase full of cash belonging to Sol Winograd kingpin of the Harlem numbers racket. Under the alias â€Jim Dandy†a name borrowed from a stock character in a Southern minstrel show he takes a freighter to England and settles into the London high life — till he’s mistaken for an African prince and ends up dragooned into Mussolini’s army during its brutal invasion of Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia. His travels and adventures take him all over Africa…. (Carroll and Graf) unknown
Common Crow Books · États-Unis350,00 $US≈ 296,14 €
