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Hoagland, Edward THE PEACOCK'S TAIL New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. SIGNED Hardcover First Edition



First printing. The third book by this writer who has been called "one of the very best of his generation" - a modern retelling of the Pied Piper story set in a sprawling welfare hotel in Manhattan's Upper West Side. INSCRIBED on the half title page "For Larry, with best regards." Uncommon thus. NF/NF (wear to theedges of the boards to which this book is prone, some light overall soiling to the white dustjacket.) .

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