Harry, the Rat with Women

New York: Mcgraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. SIGNED. 181 pp. Octavo [20.8 cm]. Quarter-bound in bright maroon paper over board with green paper spine. Gilt title on spine. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by author on half-title page. Minor bumping to the foot of the spine. DJ is slightly worn and the top corner of the inner flap is mitered. Presumed first edition with no indication to the contrary on the copyright page. "In his first novel Jules Feiffer tells us the extraordinary odyssey of Harry who moved through the female population of New York and whose love left no aftertaste ('He was like summer thirst. He was like Chinese food'), and of the women who murmured after him: 'Harry's a rat. Harry's a rat.'...Harry's furious attempts to learn how to 'make contact,' his sudden marriage to Eugene Vasch, a woman every inch his equal beauty 'except for some hard lines around the jaw,' and his tragic decline make one of the most wholly original—as well as amusing and moving—novels of our time." -from the DJ flaps.