Deliverance.

DICKEY, James.

Item Number: 134301

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970.

First edition of Dickey’s first and most famous novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Tim O’Flynn these rivers and arrows from James Dickey.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon Studios. An exceptional example.

James Dickey’s first novel Deliverance “is a thriller— or, more strictly, a suspense story— that transcends its genre… Dickey writes in a neat, terse, matter-of-fact prose, level in pitch and perfectly suited” to this harrowing tale of four businessmen on a canoe trip (New Yorker). Basis for the 1972 Oscar-nominated film by John Boorman. Yaakov & Greenfieldt, 179. Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century.