A European Education

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.75), a sticker remnant on the spine, chipped at the head of the spine. Quarter grey cloth with dark grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound with a black topstain, some soiling at the edges, clean internally. Gary's prize-winning novel of "a boy fighting with the partisans in the forests of Poland under conditions of extreme stress and peril and receiving what he calls, at first ironically, his 'European Education' of hate, killing and destruction.