Deliverance

Dickey, James Lafayette [1923-1997]

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1970

About this Item

First UK Edition. 1st UK Edition. 8vo. Publisher's blue boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Red top-edge (un-faded). Some old sellotape residue to the end-papers and margins of the front and rear flaps. Overall a VG copy in like dustwrapper a little rubbed with a small nick at the foot of the upper joint. Comes together with an archive of correspondence between the Author and Anthony Rossiter (1926-2000) renowned Artist, writer and teacher obsessed by mystical intimations which he found in everyday things and landscape. The correspondence includes a TLS from James Dickey, 4620 Lelia's Court, Columbia, 2 November 1970, to Anthony Rossiter, thanking him for his letter and continuing, '. I have very rarely been in Columbia at all, what with the hullabaloo appending Deliverance', the trip to London for the British publication, the negotiations with film people, and the rest. I hope by now that you have read Deliverance, and have found something in it for you. Please understand how very much moved I am by your congratulatory statement. I doubt that I will ever write another novel - though I might, even so - and so it is doubly important for people whom I esteem, as I do you, to like the book, and even more important that they should be so kind as to write and tell me so. I won't go on and on in this immoderate vein, but will just close on thanks, once more. ', telling that he is going to choose another Rossiter picture to buy but only after 'a lot of work to which I am already committed, both myself, by Warner Brothers out in Hollywood, and by other Agencies over which I have little or no control', together with a group of 8 further Typed Letters Signed, Jim , from Dickey to Rossiter, 1969-73, as a friend and fan/collector of Rossiter s art, praising The Pendulum in one and saying that he is re-reading The Golden Chain for the second time in another, and think it s just terrific and wondering if the painting on the front, Conflagration of Cornstooks is available to buy, and in one letter referring to Deliverance once more, … thanks for the things you are kind enough to say about Deliverance, both the novel and the film. Yes; the English reviews have been very good, and a great deal more perceptive than the American ones, good or otherwise, and this is all very gratifying , a total of 7 pages, 4to, with the accompanying envelopes, and two carbon copies of letters from Rossiter to Dickey/ Provenance: >From the family of Anthony Rossiter, by direct descent. The debut novel of American writer James Dickey, who had previously published poetry. It was adapted into the 1972 film of the same name directed by John Boorman starring Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty & Jon Voight. In 1998, the editors of the Modern Library selected Deliverance as #42 on their list of the 100 best 20th-Century novels. In 2005, the novel was included on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. Scarce with these attributes, Photographs/scans available upon request. Seller Inventory # 355490723740

Bibliographic Details

Title: Deliverance

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London

Publication Date: 1970

Binding: Hard Cover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket

Edition: First Edition.