The Dick Gibson Show - Signed - Stanley Elkin 1971 - Random House, New York - First Edition First edition signed by Elkin. A fine copy in fine and wonderfully illustrated dust jacket designed by Robert Korn.

National Book Award finalist: Look who's on the "Dick Gibson Radio Show": Arnold the Memory Expert ("I've memorized the entire West Coast shoreline - except for cloud cover and fog banks"). Bernie Perk, the burning pharmacist. Henry Harper, the nine-year old orphan millionaire, terrified of being adopted. The woman whose life revolves around pierced lobes. An evil hypnotist. Swindlers. Con-men. And Dick Gibson himself. Anticipating talk radio and its crazed hosts, Stanley Elkin creates a brilliant comic world held together by American manias and maniacs in all their forms, and a character who perfectly understands what Americans want and gives it to them.
  ‘Stanley Elkin’s third novel, The Dick Gibson Show...squeezes the blackheads behind the ears of your imagination; it’s a Diane Arbus walk on the unreconciled side. It’s among the most powerful and funny American novels I know....it’s worth noting how fully this novel, which is set mostly in the two decades after World War II, anticipates the daily purge that is the internet, its mille-feuille layers of outrage and heartbreak....The contents of Elkin’s novel leave you a bit sick. His talent leaves you wasted, too. This book is a landslide of language, and it’s unfair, somehow, that so many gifts were bestowed on one writer…’ – Dwight Garner, New York Times, American Beauties column.

‘A divine exploiter of the idiocies and intricacies of our language.’ – John Irving.

‘This is Elkin's third novel and his best--a funny, melancholy, frightening, scabrous, absolutely American compendium that may turn out to be our classics about radio.’ – Joseph McElroy,
New York Times Book Review.

Octavo (book size 21.6x15cm), pp. [12] 3-335 [1] [1 (about the author)] [5]. In publisher’s white cloth spine and orange paper covered boards, spine lettered in orange and pink, upper board with pink vignette of microphone mirroring the one on the dust jacket, all edges trimmed. Dust jacket priced ‘$6.95’ to upper corner of front flap.
  Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.   Ref: 111671   Price: HK$ 2,500