Purple cloth on boards, yellow cloth on spine. Volume is lightly worn. Jacket has moderate wear, few nicks and small tears, soiled looking from rubbing. Now in clear cover. 487 pp. "For many years Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charles Citrine were best of friends - Humboldt a grand erratic figure, a great poet; Charlie a young man of frenzied and noble longings, straight out of the Middle West, his heart inflamed with literature. But by the 1970's Humboldt has died a failure in New York and Charlie's success-ridden life in Chicago has taken various turns for the worse; when Humboldt acts from the grave to change Charlie's life. He has left Charlie something in his will. Charlie comes into a legacy. Now, Charlie is middle-aged, and a bit shaky, and it is high time his life comes to something. How the gentle but resilient Charlie comes to know what he must do and how he triumphs over his ever more ridiculous tribulations is the great discovery of Humboldt's Gift."

Fiction, Novel