Principato by Tom McHale - First Edition Hardcover (2nd Printing, 1970, Viking Press) | Vintage Collectible Book for Literature Enthusiasts & Book Collectors

McHale, Tom. New York: The Viking Press, 1970.

English, Second Printing, Very Good, HC, 12mo, 8 1/2" x 5 3/4", 6 + [2] 311 pp.

ISBN: 670576972

Light blue cloth over board, stamped green decoration and lettering to front and spine, stamped red lettering to spine, minor cocking to spine, some sunning to top edge, head, and tail, light foxing to bottom edges, slight toning to pastedowns, tiny black mark to title page, otherwise, sharp tips, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Very Good white pictorial dust jacket, featuring an illustration to front panel, black-and-white photograph of author, Tom McHale to back interior flap, black, red, and gray lettering to front, back, spine, and interior flaps, 1/8" closed tear to bottom front edge, minor sunning to spine and top edge, some wear to top tips, tips of interior flaps, and head, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. 6 + [2] 311 pp. Includes 17 chapters and Epilogue. From inside dust jacket: "A titanic ethnic and theological struggle for the - perhaps - immortal soul of one man is thus set in motion. Principato presides. Not overly bright, indecisively rash, impulsively resolute, with his shoelaces tied together, he stumbles along to a bitterly surrealistic deathbed scene."