Colonel Mint

London: Calder Boyars, (1972). First edition (U.K.), 1st impression. 8vo. 188 pp. Original navy cloth-covered boards, stamped in silver, in original unclipped (£2.75) dust-jacket. Light edge wear, some toning particular to spine. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Trivial handling wear to edges with faintest smudges to panels. Stiff, sharp.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“Paul was honoured with the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award (1985), the Lannan Prize for Fiction (1993), the Grand Prix Halperine-Kaminsky Award (1993), and three Pushcart Prizes (1987, 1991, 2003). He was also a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public Library Literary Lion (1987), and a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters 1996, France).”