Deliverance.

DICKEY, James [John Boorman].

$1,500.00

Item Number: 136477

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970.

First edition of Dickey’s first and most famous novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Roy Grisham- from James Dickey.” Additionally inscribed by director John Boorman opposite the title page. Boorman was the director of the classic film bearing the same name. Boorman has directed 22 films and received five Academy Award nominations, twice for Best Director (for Deliverance, and Hope and Glory). He is also credited with creating the first Academy Award screeners to promote The Emerald Forest. In 2004, Boorman received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In January 2022, Boorman received a knighthood. 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, starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox. Yaakov & Greenfieldt, 179. Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century.