Prophet by Experience

New York: William Morrow and Company. Very Good in Very Good- dj. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [solid copy, top edge a little dust-darkened, top corners moderately bumped; jacket worn along top/bottom edges, various tiny tears, minor chipping at spine ends]. Satirical novel about a cave-dwelling hermit who takes a subscription to a weekly news magazine and eventually writes them a letter of appreciation, after which all hell breaks loose. .