Deliverance.

DICKEY, James.

$2,000.00

Item Number: 143993

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 my old friend Inman Mays this novel of survival: “adapt of die”- James Dickey June 21, 1970.” Additionally signed by Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight on the title page, who starred in the Academy Award nominated film bearing the same name. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon Studios. An unique 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, starring Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds. Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century.