STRAUB, Peter.
Wild Animals. Three Novels: Julia, If You Could See Me Now, and Under Venus.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons , 1984.
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First Edition of Wild Animals; Inscribed by Peter Straub
First edition of this collection of three modern classic Gothic works by Peter Straub. Octavo, original publisher's half-cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Steve - a few good old good ones - Peter Straub." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Wild Animals: Three Novels (1984) is an omnibus volume collecting three early works by Peter Straub (1943–2022) — the Milwaukee-born author who would go on to become one of the most celebrated and decorated practitioners of literary horror fiction in the American tradition, and a long-time collaborator with Stephen King on The Talisman and Black House. The collection gathers Julia (originally published in 1975 as Full Circle), a London-set ghost story that marked Straub's first foray into supernatural fiction after two earlier attempts at mainstream literary novels; If You Could See Me Now (1977), a horror novel set in rural Wisconsin; and most significantly Under Venus — a literary mainstream novel that Straub had written second, after Marriages, but which remained unpublished until its appearance here as the ninth work of his career, making the omnibus its world premiere and lending the collection a genuine bibliographic distinction. Straub went on to win the Bram Stoker Award, the World Fantasy Award, the World Horror Convention Grandmaster Award, and the August Derleth Award.
Wild Animals. Three Novels: Julia, If You Could See Me Now, and Under Venus.
$300.00
In Stock
