Understudy for Love
Publication: Chicago: Newsstand Library, 1961. First Edition.
Notes: An "adult reading" novel, issued as a paperback original. "The publisher insisted Willeford add sex scenes into the book before they would accept it... The advance was $500, which seems to have been Willeford's standard advance during his paperback years"—Don Herron's bibliography in Everybody's Metamorphosis.
NSL U170. Fifty-cent cover price.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing stated). Mild spine lean, nick to spine affecting the author's last name, otherwise a near fine copy.
Item No: #362763
Price: $250
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