Bibliographical Description
88.09.W018: Brodkey – First Love and Other Sorrows
FIRST LOVE | AND OTHER | SORROWS | HAROLD | BRODKEY | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS • A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE • NEW YORK
112 leaves, pp. 3–12 13-31 32–34 35-84 85–86 87-114 115–116 117-156 157–158 159-166 167–168 169-177 178–180 181-192 193–194 195-207 208–210 211-223 [3] [The first page with pagination marked on it is page 13; however, the table of contents indicates that the first story, “State of Grace”, begins on page 11. The page numbers listed on the table of contents point to the section title for each story, pages that are unnumbered with a blank unnumbered page on the verso before the story proper begins. Thus we should expect 10 pages / 5 leaves to precede this page 11, when there are in fact only 8 pages / 4 leaves. There are 2 pages missing from the expected 10 at some point in the sequence; to preserve an unbroken pagination sequence, I have treated pages “1” and “2” as missing]
Vintage Contemporaries Edition, September 1988 [i.e. second Vintage Contemporaries edition]
Contents: 3 blurbs, 4 “OTHER BOOKS BY HAROLD BRODKEY”, 5 title, 6 imprint, 7 dedication, 8 blank, 9 contents, 10 blank, 11-223 First Love and Other Sorrows: 11-31 “THE STATE | OF GRACE”, 32 blank, 33-84 “FIRST LOVE | AND OTHER | SORROWS”, 85-114 “THE QUARREL”, 115-156 “SENTIMENTAL | EDUCATION”, 157-166 “LAURIE DRESSING”, 167-177 “LAURA”, 178 blank, 179-192 “TRIO FOR THREE | GENTLE VOICES”, 193-207 “PIPING DOWN | THE VALLEYS WILD”, 208 blank, 209-223 “THE DARK | WOMAN OF | THE SONNETS”; χ1b about the author, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries list, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list, continued, with order form.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Patty Dryden; exterior rear author photo by Jerry Bauer.
Copyright: © 1954, 1955, 1957. ISBN: 0-679-72075-8. Price: $7.95. First Love and Other Sorrows was first published by Dial Press 1954 and was first reissued by Vintage Contemporaries in 1986.
Copies: JDP2.1 and JDP 2.2
Blurbs
- (front cover) For some years now, Harold Brodkey has been making one of the great brave journeys of American literature. – Don DeLillo
- When First Love and Other Sorrows was first published in 1958, Harold Brodkey was greeted as a major presence on the literary landscape of America. Now reissued to coincide with the hardcover publication of a major new collection, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode, these funny, tender, sympathetic stories showcase the unique talents of a modern master.
- Brodkey’s literature matters a great deal, for literature it surely is. – The New Republic
- A volume marked by quiet immediacy. Some of the stories…have the effect of quiet confidences, highly personal yet carefully contrived. – Chicago Tribune
- An unusually gifted writer with an attractive freshness of perception, a fine command of language, and an individual vein of humor. – The Atlantic