Lillian Ross. First American edition, second printing (stated). Dust Jacket: Very Good. An unclipped jacket with original price $4.00 on inside flap. Jacket design by the great Janet Halverson. Hardcover: Very Good+ NY: Simon and Shuster, 1963. Yellow cloth with black band across cover and spine with yellow lettering. No writing and other than the number "99" on flyleaf, no markings in this sturdy book, 223 pp.
The book is a satire on the medical and psychoanalytic worlds of 1960's Manhattan.
This was the authors fourth book, including "Portrait of Hemingway." She was a staff writer for the New Yorker stating in 1945, working there for seven decades! She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs.
