Confessions of a Spent Youth

First UK edition. Publisher’s original red buckram boards with gilt titles to spine. Name to ffe; light foxing to fore-edge of text block; superficial reading crease to spine; off-setting to free endpapers. In very good edge-rubbed and age-toned dust jacket. *** Picaresque novel inspired by De Quincey’s Confessions. Vance Bournjaily (1922-2010) was an American writer who for most of his career worked as a writing instructor and professor at several American universities, including the Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop where he taught Raymond Carver.