HITCHENS, Christopher.
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports.
First edition of For the Sake of Argument; inscribed by Christopher Hitchens
London: Verso, 1993.
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First edition of Hitchens' wide-ranging collection of scathing articles and riotous essays. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "For George and Isabel, from the author who has learned much from their old man. Christopher 7. vii. 93." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Philip Barker. Cover photograph by Annie Leibovitz. Author photograph by Ed Kashi.
The subjects of the pieces collected in For the Sake of Argument range from the political squalors of the beleaguered Bush administration, to the twilight of Stalinism in Prague; from the Jewish quarter of Damascus in the aftermath of the Gulf War to pointed reassessments of Graham Greene and P.G. Wodehouse and riotous celebrations of drinking and smoking. "This is high-velocity Hitchens ... stylish, avid, wittier and more wide-ranging than ever. His allies, of whom I count myself one, rejoice in the sureness of his aim. May his targets cower" (Susan Sontag).
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports.
$600.00
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