KIŠ, Danilo

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First edition. 170pp. Black paper backed with gray cloth; unclipped dust jacket. Light fading to extremities, else near fine in like jacket. First English-language edition of this 1965 novel by Yugoslav-Serbian writer Danilo Kiš (1935-1989), a semi-autobiographical account of "a boy growing up in the shadow of a brilliant and destructive father-figure, a messianic failure" (jacket flap). Translated by William J. Hannaher. Dust jacket design by Seymour Chwast.