Jeremy Larner — Drive, He Said

London, Anthony Blond, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this explicit debut novel from American writer Jeremy Larner, with the scarce original wraparound band. First UK edition. With the vanishingly scarce original wraparound band. The author's debut novel which won the Delta Prize for first novels in 1964. Everyone is after Hector Bloom, an All-American boy with the height, shape, and brain of an athlete - a favoured college boy. Although not expected to conform, there is a limit to the tolerance of a campus, and Hector oversteps in a big way. Written by Jeremy Larner, an American author, poet, journalist, and speechwriter who won an Oscar in 1972 for Best Original Screenplay, for writing The Candidate. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Minor sunning to the spine. With the original paper wraparound band, also very smart with minor wear and the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot to the endpapers. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.