The Dean’s December.

BELLOW, Saul.

$400.00

Item Number: 122663

New York: Harper & Row, 1982.

First edition of the first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Octavo, original green cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For David Kent Saul Bellow.” The recipient David Kent was Saul Bellow’s Canadian publisher. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An excellent association.

Albert Corde, dean of a Chicago college, is unprepared for the violent response to his expose of city corruption. Accused of betraying his city, as well as being a racist, he journeys to Bucharest, where his mother-in-law lies dying, only to find corruption rife in the Communist capital. Switching back and forth between the two cities, The Dean's December represents Bellow's "most spirited resistance to the forces of our time" (Malcolm Bradbury).