LIKE ONE THAT DREAMED. A Portrait Of A.M. Klein. Signed.

Toronto: McGraw Hill Ryerson, (1982). 1982.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition of this insightful biography of Canadian poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer, and lawyer, A. M. Klein, exploring his times and milieu, friends, David Lewis, F.R. Scott, A.J.M. Smith, Leo Kennedy, Irving Layton, Louis Dudek, James Laughlin, Leon Edel et al., neatly Signed by Klein scholar, Usher Caplan on the half-title page. 8vo. 224 pp. A fine copy in beige cloth, copper titles to the spine in a bright, fresh near fine pictorial dustwrapper. With keen observations of Klein's complex personality, his fascination and literary studies of James Joyce's Ulysses, published posthumously and his mysterious lapse into silence that saw him give up writing and speech the last seventeen years of his life. With a Foreward by Leon Edel, black and white photographs throughout edited by David Kaufman and selections from Klein's works.

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