The Pillars of Earth.

FOLLETT, Ken [Erica Jong].

Item Number: 142893

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1989.

First edition of Follett’s best-selling work, widely considered his masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Erica and Ken, with love – Ken Follett.” The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989 and became close personal friends of Follett’s. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual Revolution of the 1970s and encapsulated the movement’s redefinition of female sexuality. In interviews, Jong stated: “At the time I wrote Fear of Flying, there was not a book that said women are romantic, women are intellectual, women are sexual—and brought all those things together… What [Isadora is] looking for is how to be a whole human being, a body and a mind, and that is what women were newly aware they needed in 1973.” The novel remains a feminist classic and has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Gatti.

British author Ken Follett first achieved success and fame as a novelist in 1978 with the publication of Eye of the Needle, which became an international bestseller and sold over 10 million copies. Each of Follett's subsequent novels has become a best-seller, many reaching the number-one position on the New York Times Best Seller list including Triple (1979), The Key to Rebecca (1980), Lie Down with Lions (1985), A Dangerous Fortune (1993), World Without End (2007), Fall of Giants (2010), Winter of the World (2012), and Edge of Eternity (2014).