A Fan’s Notes

New York: Harper & Row (1968). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 385 pp. Original quarter purple cloth over orange paper-covered boards, stamped in black, silver, in original unclipped ($6.95) dust-jacket. Edge wear with chipping and fraying to spine ends and corners, abrasion to spine, slight spotting and scuffs. Damp soiling evident to jacket verso atop spine panel . Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Light wear to edges and some bumps to panel edges. Mild curling to spine ends with evident of slight abrasion. Front hinge starting at title page.

Dust Jacket: Good

Hardcover: Good

“A Fan's Notes is a 1968 novel by Frederick Exley. Subtitled "A Fictional Memoir" and categorized as fiction, the book is semi-autobiographical. In a brief "Note to the Reader" in the opening pages, Exley writes: "Though the events in this book bear similarity to those of that long malaise, my life...I have drawn freely from the imagination and adhered only loosely to the pattern of my past life. To this extent, and for this reason, I ask to be judged a writer of fantasy." Since its publication the book has been reprinted several times and achieved a cult following. A Fan's Notes was briefly featured in the documentary film Stone Reader as an example of a brilliant debut novel.”