Marx Deceased

First edition. Tall thin 8vo. Pp. xii, 218, [1]. Quarter-bound in black cloth over teal paper-covered boards, lettered in silver to spine; black endpapers. Jacket illustration features detail of René Magritte's The House of Glass, (1939).

Signed and dated to title-page by Author, noting parenthetically that this is his favourite book.

A Pulitzer prize-winning novelist, obsessed with his posterity, fakes his own death, in order to appraise his obituaries. By the late emeritus professor of chemistry at Stanford University and key researcher in the development of oral contraceptives.