Take Five

Garden City: Doubleday, (1982). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 583 pp. Original quarter navy cloth over blue slate paper-covered boards, stamped in gold, white, in original unclipped ($17.95) dust-jacket. Almost as-new. Faint edge wear, particular to spine ends and corners. Handling and shelf wear very minor. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Light handling wear present. Corners mostly quite sharp. Minimal toning to page edges. Light curling to spine ends. Interior clean and unmarked. Signed by the author in red pen to front free end paper.

Dust Jacket: Fine

Hardcover: Fine

“Mano's first novel, Bishop's Progress, was published in 1968. His next five novels were published one per year until 1973; Jeffrey Hart noted that Mano's seventh novel, Take Five, took nine years to write — which, in Hart's assessment, "wrecked [Mano] as a commercial possibility". Mano later published two more novels, for a total of nine.”