Setting Free the Bears.
“Isn't it amazing? The Americans have so many good afterthoughts!": First Edition of the Author's Rare First Book Setting Free The Bears
Setting Free the Bears.
IRVING, John.
$400.00
Item Number: 145823
New York: Random House, 1968.
First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carl Weiss. Illustration by Robert Dale.
With the publication of Setting Free the Bears, the Saturday Review prophetically called Irving "astonishing A writer of uncommon imaginative power. Whatever he writes, it will be worth reading." "Setting Free the Bears is the most nourishing, satisfying comedy I have read in years. I admire the hell out of it" (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.).
