Terry Southern & Mason Hoffenberg – Candy – First Edition 1968 – in the rare first issue dust wrapper
£150.00
London: Bernard Geis, 1968. Hardcover. First British edition, first issue dust jacket without mention of the film and also with a publisher’s sticker declaring, ‘Jacket Design is being revised’ – the dust wrapper would eventually become red. A very good book in very good dust wrapper which is chipped, browned and a edge worn. Scarce in the first issue dust wrapper.
A 1958 satirical novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, parodying Voltaire’s ’Candide. It follows Candy Christian, a beautiful, naive young woman whose attempts to do good lead her into absurd, sexually exploitative situations with a series of predatory men. The novel critiques American sexual hypocrisy and moral pretensions with sharp, irreverent humour. In 1968, ‘Candy’ was adapted into a controversial film directed by Christian Marquand, starring Ewa Aulin, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, and Ringo Starr. The film, like the book, was divisive—considered surreal and provocative by some, and exploitative or incoherent by others. Both remain cult curiosities.
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London: Bernard Geis, 1968. Hardcover. First British edition, first issue dust jacket without mention of the film and also with a publisher’s sticker declaring, ‘Jacket Design is being revised’ – the dust wrapper would eventually become red. A very good book in very good dust wrapper which is chipped, browned and a edge worn. Scarce in the first issue dust wrapper.
A 1958 satirical novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, parodying Voltaire’s ’Candide. It follows Candy Christian, a beautiful, naive young woman whose attempts to do good lead her into absurd, sexually exploitative situations with a series of predatory men. The novel critiques American sexual hypocrisy and moral pretensions with sharp, irreverent humour. In 1968, ‘Candy’ was adapted into a controversial film directed by Christian Marquand, starring Ewa Aulin, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, and Ringo Starr. The film, like the book, was divisive—considered surreal and provocative by some, and exploitative or incoherent by others. Both remain cult curiosities.
