Henderson the Rain King.
First Edition of Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King
Henderson the Rain King.
BELLOW, Saul.
$300.00
Item Number: 108921
New York: The Viking Press, 1959.
First edition of the author’s fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine first issue dust jacket. Jacket painting by Bill Preston.
Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards, for The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler s Planet, in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellow s oeuvre [as] both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." Henderson the Rain King was named one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century by Modern Library.