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WARMLY INSCRIBED BY DUBUS

DUBUS, Andre. The Lieutenant. New York: Dial, 1967. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket.

First edition of Dubus’ only novel, inscribed: “For Doug & Mary with much affection and in hopes for long lives and good work and peace too. Love, Andre.”

Dubus has been recognized as “a chronicler of the struggles of contemporary American men whose lives seem inexplicably to have gone wrong? Dubus wrote of the emotional complexities of ordinary people in ordinary settings, who find that the traditional American virtues they assumed would lead to happiness do not do so” (Kuiper, 352).

Book extremely good, with slight toning to spine ends and very light wear to original cloth. Dust jacket fine. A desirable inscribed copy.