Eighth Street Joseph Kling Association Copy,Fiction,First Printing,Iris and Carl Apfel Collection,Signed

Nearly Fine with a very faint blemish to the lower edge of the block and discoloration to the top edge of the case. Without jacket, as issued. Signed to Iris Barrel [Apfel] to the front free endpaper. Stated first limited edition. 193 pages. 5.5" x 8.25". Eighth Street is a thinly fictionalized memoir of the author s time as a young bookseller in New York City s Greenwich Village during the interwar period. The mood echoes that of any period in the city s history with palpable disdain for change and nostalgia for a more romantic past that probably only ever existed in one s imagination: "[E]verything the same. The same? No! Not by a damn-sight! Neither the houses, nor the people. Neither their talk, nor their laughter, nor their silence. Everything is different. Our minds are different. Our hearts. Our life. Our world. And the vast world-chaos encompassing our world " This copy is signed by Joe Kling to Iris Barrel. Iris Apfel (nee, Barrel; 1921 2024) was a fashion icon and a renowned designer and textile expert. A rare artifact from her early twenties, before fame. .