Description

• First Thus [New Directions, New York, 2007]; xvi, 134 pages of text; 27 sections in paper band + separate colophon, introduction, etc section, paper band damaged at glued join; in illustrated clamshell box; an excellent copy
• A literary curiosity, The Unfortunates is printed in 27 separate sections which can be read in random sequence, aside from the first & last sections [entitled as such]
• First published in 1969 by Panther Books [UK]
• B.S. Johnson was an experimental novelist & admirer of Joyce & Beckett
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-1743-9 / 9780811217439