The Water-Method Man

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a near fine dustjacket with a single, small closed tear. Jacket design by Hal Seigal. Quarter blue cloth over yellow boards, with metallic blue spine lettering, bright and unmarred. A beautiful copy of Irving's second book. Written when the author was twenty-nine, the main character is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first. Octavo 8vo. 365 pages. "Three or four times as funny as most novels." (The New Yorker). A great copy.