Cockpit / Jerzy Kosinski / Signed First Edition / Houghton 1975 HC/DJ

Description: Cockpitby Jerzy Kosinski DJ, black cloth over boards; gold and silver foil titling on front cover and spine. Description: * First edition / First printing* Signed by author on ffep, 'With every best wish / Jerzy Kosinski' Condition Notes: * Dust Jacket G, Light toning and wear along d.j. foldover edges, light wear to spine ends; unclipped ($8.95).* Boards VG; clean with no dirt, abrasions or marks, spine unworn.* Gutters: No splits and completely firm* Binding firm and square* Text Block: firm with no loose pages or markings to pages. No PO marks. B2 Jerzy Kosiński (born Józef Lewinkopf; 1933 – 1991) was an American-Jewish novelist of Polish origin and two-time president of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English. Born in Poland, he survived World War II and, as a young man, emigrated to the U.S., where he became a citizen. A National Book Award winner, he was known for novels, among them Being There (1971) and the controversial The Painted Bird (1965), which were adapted as films in 1979 and 2019 respectively. Cockpit is a debriefing after a long, tortuous mission. An agent known only as Tarden is a former operative of the mysterious security agency “the Service.” He has erased himself from all dossiers and transcripts. Now a fugitive, he moves across the landscape free of identity, in search of adventure and intrigue. But Tarden is a man of many disguises, and he is alternately avenger and savior, judge and trickster, as he enters the lives of others, forcing them into the arena of his judgment.

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