Published by Random House, New York, 1966
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Printing. Purple boards with black cloth spine cover have only light wear. Usual library markings, tape marks on end pages. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st printing, but ex-library with usual stamps and markings, pocket in back. Worn, but with dust jacket in library dj cover, which would be salvageable - some edgewear, the dj isn't glued to the endpapers, only the dj cover. 274pp.
Published by Random House,, NY:, 1966
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First printing. Near fine in a near fine (light age toning about the edges, one short closed edge tear) dust jacket. B0000CN1R1.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First Printing. The Jacket Has A Date Code Of 3/66. Author's First Novel. Light Wear To The Jacket, Else Fine.
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1966
Seller: Brian P. Martin Antiquarian and Collectors' Books, Midhurst, SUSSE, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1966 first edition, first printing. Binding in fine, tight condition. 274-page text in fine, tight, clean condition, with no inscriptions. Dust jacket unclipped and in very good condition, with light age-browning to spine and minor, neat internal restoration of the spine ends. Weight 370g. See photographs attached. (H-39).
Published by New York, Random House, 1966, 1966
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
, Lebowitz, Albert, 1922-2016. Laban's Will. New York, Random House, 1966, stated First Printing, 274pp., worn price-clipped dust-jacket with flattened out fold marks on front and rear, very good black and purple cloth, lightly scuffed on rear cover. nicely INSCRIBED and SIGNED : 12/16/72 To Peter, who comes and goes and has never left us / Al. Dust-jacket design by Ted Bernstein, rear jacket photo of author by George C. Harris. His first novel. The author was a lawyer in St. Louis, a WWII veteran, editor of Perspective. A 2016 obituary noted that he lived a "double life" as lawyer and novelist, and was immortalized in a poem by Howard Nemerov: "By Al Lebowitz's Pool.".