A Burnt-Out Case
Price: $175.00
Hardcover. London: Heinemann, 1961. 1st Edition. Near Fine / Dust Jacket Included.
First edition, first printing. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in silver; in the original dust jacket designed by Lacey Everett, lettered in white. Near fine book, with a touch of wear to spine ends, a hint of rubbing to bottom edge of boards, and small bookseller's stamp to front pastedown; near fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning to spine and inner flap edges, light wear to head of spine, and nicked upper corners. Overall, an attractive, tight and square copy. A Burnt-Out Case tells the story of a famous architect who attempts to cure his disillusionment with life by moving anonymously to a small leper colony in the Congo. There, the protagonist is diagnosed as having psychological damage equivalent to the physical damage caused by leprosy. As the dust jacket explains, "A leper who is cured has sometimes gone first through the stage of mutilation - he is known then as a 'burnt-out case'; the stranger too has gone through the stage of mutilation: of the mind in his case, not the body." Item #GG044
