Good as Gold

First UK edition. Crown 8vo. Pp. 447, [1 (blank)]. Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt to spine; grey endpapers. Stained salmon pink to textblock top edge. Jacket design by Craig Dodd [priced £4.95 net to front flap]. Gift inscription (not the author's) to half-title, else Fine.

Author's third novel. Sections excerpted originally in The New York Times in 1976 and in Playboy magazine in 1979.

Bruce Gold, a middle-aged, Jewish professor, always thought of as a schmuck by his father, is being led to believe that a plum government post is his for his asking in post-Watergate America. "[O]ne of the important books of our generation." –The Chicago Sun-Times

[Bruccoli & Bucker A.6.1.g]