The Dick.

Friedman (Bruce Jay)

The Dick.

Description: FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, pp. 310, 8vo, original mauve boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, head of spine slightly pushed, unclipped dustjacket faintly toned, nick at head of backstrip panel, very good

Publication Details: Jonathan Cape, 1971

Notes: Novelist, playwright, screenwriter and actor, Friedman, like his friend Joseph Heller, was an early purveyor of American 'black humour'. - here contrived from the 'casual depravity of his monstrous cops'. The tone of the extravagant flap description 'Yet this scar-bisected quasi-dick is plagued with problems… [and is sent] on a demoniacal, tightly scheduled sexual odyssey across the city…' is echoed in the cover image, designed by Colin Andrews.