Bibliographical Description
88.09.W009: Exley – A Fan’s Notes: A Fictional Memoir
A | FAN’S | NOTES | [diagonal rule 68 mm] | A Fictional Memoir | by Frederick Exley | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS • A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE • NEW YORK
200 leaves, pp. [12] 1-385 [3]
Edition statement: Vintage Contemporaries Edition, September 1988 [i.e. second Vintage Contemporaries edition]
Contents: π1a blurbs, π1b ‘ALSO BY FREDERICK EXLEY’, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a dedication, π3b blank, π4a ‘A Note to the Reader’, π4b blank, π5a epigraphs, π5b blank, π6a fly-title, π6b blank, 1-385 A Fan’s Notes: 1-28 ‘1 | [diagonal rule 19 mm] | The Nervous Light | of Sunday’, 29-71 ‘2 | [diagonal rule 19 mm] | Cheers for Stout | Steve Owen’, 72-118 ‘3 | [diagonal rule 19 mm] | Straw Hat for | a Madman’, 119-175 ‘4 | [diagonal rule 19 mm] | Onhava Regained | and Lost Again”, 176-226 ‘5 | [diagonal rule 19 mm] | Journey on a | Davenport’, 227-298 ‘6 | [diagonal rule 9 mm] | Who? Who? Who | Is Mr. Blue?’, 299-357 ‘7 | [diagonal rule 19 mm] | Lament for a | Conspiracy’, 358-385 ‘8 | [diagonal rule 19 mm] | A Dream of | Sanguinary Ends’; χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries ad with three blurbs.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Dave Monteil; exterior rear author photo by Mark Jury.
Copyright: © 1968. ISBN: 0-679-72076-8. Price: $7.95. A Fan’s Notes was first published by Harper & Row Publisher’s, Inc. 1968 and was first reissued by Vintage Contemporaries in 1985.
Copies: JDP 2.22, JDP 2.25
Blurbs
- (front cover) A Fan’s Notes is strong, beautiful, American, one of a kind. – Kurt Vonnegut
- The best novel written in the English language since The Great Gatsby. – Newsday
- This is the horrible, hilarious account of a long failure, but a failure which turns into success: the success that this book is. A Fan’s Notes is one man’s life, written with brilliance and insight. No one should have had Exley’s life, and no one who has read it can ever forget it. – James Dickey
- A singularly moving, entertaining, funny book. – The New York Times
- Writers of every kind of aesthetic and cultural persuasion talk about it with one another, and press it on their friends to read….When I urge A Fan’s Notes on a friend who asks what is it about? or what is it like? I say read it, just read it. – Geoffrey Wolff, Los Angeles Times
- A welcome reminder of what the basic business of literature and of living really is. All fans of art and life should read it. – Jack Kroll, Newsweek