SONTAG, Susan

Death Kit

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); white cloth spine over black paper-covered boards, titled in black to spine; dustjacket; 312pp. Light bumping to spine ends and a little sunning/discoloration to the extremities; internally clean, signed by Sontag to the half title. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.75) with some toning to the white rear panel; some creasing with closed tears to the upper edge of the rear panel, with tape repairs to the verso. A very good copy.

A signed copy of the author's second book. "In Death Kit, Susan Sontag attempts to achieve those qualities of the nouveau-roman she has praised in her criticism; that "search for an infinite precision...narrow dehydrated subject-matter and cool microscopic style....A noble, serious try at a structuralist study of indeterminacy in an American setting, with many shrewd, startling moments, and that's about all." (Kirkus Reviews).

Price: $500.00

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