KEYES, Daniel.
Flowers for Algernon.
"My name is Charlie Gordon I werk at Donners bakery store": First edition of the Daniel Keyes' Flowers For Algernon; Lengthily Signed by Him
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1966.
$8,800.00
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Item Number: RRB-150215
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First edition of the author's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel, basis for the Oscar award-winning movie adaptation Charly. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, who has transcribed the opening paragraph as follows, "My name is Charlie Gordon I werk at Donners bakery store - Daniel Keyes." Additionally signed again by Daniel Keyes on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Jacket design by Carl Smith. An exceptional inscription.
With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As a 1959 novella it won a Hugo Award; the 1966 novel-length expansion won a Nebula. The Oscar-winning movie adaptation Charly (1968) also spawned a 1980 Broadway musical.
Flowers for Algernon.
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