The Instrument
Hodder & Stoughton, 1967.
First UK edition. Red cloth, lettered in gilt, in pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper.
Published a few years before O'Hara died, The Instrument was a Literary Guild choice in America. John Updike, a fan of O'Hara's writing, said that the prolific author "outproduced our capacity for appreciation; maybe now we can settle down and marvel at him all over again."
Stock ID: 18591