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Author: Keyes, Daniel
Title: Flowers for Algernon
Place: New York
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World
Date: [1966]
Item # : 192191
Sale Number   377
Lot Number   391
Sale Name    
Fine Literature; Beats, Bukowski & the Counter Culture; Sci-Fi & Detective Fiction
Sale Date   04/03/2008
Price realized   $ 450
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Description:
Gray cloth, pictorial white jacket. First Edition, First printing.
Author’s first novel. First appeared as a short story and won the 1960 Hugo Award (was also nominated for the 1969 Hugo Award as a novel). However, it did win the 1966 Nebula Award. Basis for the 1968 film, Charly, starring Cliff Robertson, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor as Charly. Selected as one of the 100 Best Science Fiction novels – David Pringle. Currey, p.276.
Condition:
Small tears and chips to jacket edges, scattered faint dampstains, original price sticker on front flap; hinges glue repaired; about very good in like jacket.
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