Revolutionary Road.

YATES, Richard.

$6,500.00

Item Number: 2784

Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.

First edition of the author’s classic first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Yates on the front free endpaper, “For Jim Brady With best wishes always, Dick Yates Feb 1, 87.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tony Palladino. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example, uncommon signed and inscribed.

"Revolutionary Road is the The Great Gatsby of my time. One of the best books written by a member of my generation" (Kurt Vonnegut). "If more is needed to make a masterpiece in modern American fiction I don't know what it is" (Tennessee Williams). Chosen by Time as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. Adapted in 2008 to film, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.