Diary of a Yuppie.

AUCHINCLOSS, Louis.

$40.00

Item Number: 146885

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1986.

Signed limited first edition of this narrative portrait of a ruthless climb up the corporate ladder, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, bound in full top-grain leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, double-page frontispiece by Jeffrey Smith. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. In fine condition with a very small abrasion to the bottom edge.

"The rise of fall of the yuppie cannot be without some significance to human society, and as such it must be a proper subject for the novelist of manners, whatever that term may mean. All I know is that I am constantly called it" (Louis Auchincloss). "The diary of the title refers to a journal kept by Robert Service, who in his early thirties is about to be made partner in a prestigious New york law firm . . . For Service, getting to the top is all; and if he ever had a conscience, it has been buried under a mountain of raw ambition. Bob Service is certainly a controversial character, but one with very understandable motives in this world where so much emphasis is placed on being number one" (Darby Perry, The Franklin Library).