Nik Cohn — Market

London, Secker & Warburg, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this very scarce debut novel from British writer Nik Cohn, published when he was just nineteen years old. First edition. Very scarce work. The author's debut novel. A novel and a love-affair between the author and the market - any and every kind of market: fish, fruit, meat, flower, London, country, large, and small. All observed with a fresh, keen eye and drawn with vivid economy. Written by Nik Cohn, a British writer best known as the writer of the 1976 New York article "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", which was the source material for the movie Saturday Night Fever. It has also been rumoured that Cohn's novel I Am Still the Greatest Says Johnny Angelo was an inspiration for David Bowie's album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Two 1" closed tears to the front panel, with minor creasing to the rear panel. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good.