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8vo., [xvi], 215pp., double-page colour frontispiece by Jeffrey Smith, silk ribbon marker, marbled endpapers, all edges blocked in gilt, bound in quality full black leather, covers blocked with ornate gilt designs, spine gilt decorated in compartments with raised bands and gilt lettering. A very fine bright clean copy. This LIMITED FIRST EDITION of Dairy of a Yuppie has been Privately Printed, and personally SIGNED by Louis Auchincloss exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. A total of 201 various classic First Editions by various authors were issued by the Franklin Library from 1983 until they ceased publishing in 2000. Bob Service, the protagonist of this deft and chilling novel of contemporary ambition and greed, is a thirty-two-year-old crack lawyer with blood as cold and clear as a five-dollar martini. Bob's god is power and his morals are ever tempered by expediency. His goals far exceed an imminent partnership in a big New York law firm. Bob's "perfect' marriage to the graceful and intelligent Alice is no match for the ardor of his corporate drive. And it certainly pales beside his explosive affair with Sylvia, whose naked ambition matches his own and whose social connections provide the ultimate bridge to the pinnacles of success. How Bob Service marches toward his fate while trampling on his associates and crippling his marriage forms the plot of this fast-paced novel about modern mores and life on the fast track of the big law firms. Office intrigue and duels for power rival anything that Machiavelli could have conjured up. And in Louis Auchincloss's hands, it all has an unnervingly authentic ring. Seller Inventory # 3658
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