Leather Bound Special Edition of Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow, Franklin Library 1983 in excellent offers condition.

Leather Bound Special Edition of offers Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow, Franklin Library 1983 Privately printed and bound exclusively for subscribers to the Franklin Library of Pulitzer Prize Classics. Illustrated by Barry Shapiro in excellent condition

Humboldt's Gift is a 1975 novel by Saul Bellow, which won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year. The novel, which Bellow intended to be a short story, is a roman à clef about Bellow's friendship with the poet Delmore Schwartz. It explores the changing relationship of art and power in a materialist America. This theme is addressed through the contrasting careers of two writers, Von Humboldt Fleisher (to some degree a version of Schwartz) and his protege Charlie Citrine (to some degree a version of Bellow himself).