The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (First American Edition, inscribed to Mel Gussow, dated in the year of publication) by Wayne Johnston - 1999

New York: Doubleday, 1999. First American Edition, first printing, published first in Canada by Knopf the same year. INSCRIBED and dated by the author to Mel Gussow on the title page: "For Mel / With best wishes / August 23 1999 / N. Y. N. Y. / Wayne Johnston." Gussow was a theatre critic and cultural writer for The New York Times from 1969 until his death in 2005. He authored 8 books, served as editor for many others, and his reviews and interviews (with the likes of Arthur Miller, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Tom Stoppard) became staples of students and fans of theatre for decades. His first published review was Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in 1962, leading to a lifelong relationship with the playwright that resulted in a biography of Albee by Gussow, published in 1999. Gussow published a review of Johnston's book in The New York Times in November, 1999. Spine ends lightly bumped, else Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. The first book of Johnston's to be published in the United States. A nice copy, and an interesting association.