TRUST
New York: The New American Library, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Yellow cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. 568 pp. The first novel by one of our finest writers. At a time when mass market publishers like NAL dominated book sales and were distributed through different channels than Trade publishers (through newsstand and magazine distributors) a few began to establish there own hardcover imprints as bookstore chains like Walden and Dalton grew. A young editor named David Segal in only a year before he left (to H&R, then Knopf, bringing some of these authors with him; he would die of a heart attack at the age of 42) was the most successful from a literary point of view publishing first and early books by some of the most important author's of their generation, including William Gass, John Gardner, Charles Williams, Michael Shaara, Alice Adams, and Cynthia Ozick. A near fine copy in an easily very good dust jacket with a few short closed tears and a small damp stain at the rear fold; the jacket has not been price-clipped, the white jacket bright including the spine. Near fine / very good. Item #16060
Price: $450.00