The Victim.

New York, NY Hearst Corporation: Avon Books, 1975. Paperback First Edition Thus (1975), Second Printing. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows indications very careful use; a couple of tiny, faint stress creases to the lower rear corner tip and a very faint crease along the front hinge; the expected light tanning to the text pages, due to aging; very mild rubbing to the panels; some sun-blanching to the tinted top edge and a small area of blanching to the bottom edge as well; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing minor, unobtrusive imperfections only. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7 x 4.25 x 0.75 inches). 256 pages. Language: English. Weight: 5.7 ounces. First Edition Thus (1975), Second Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows); (1915 – 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990. His writing exhibited a mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age. Bellow was widely regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest authors.