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Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. Stated First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Poor. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Black linen boards/Fine. DJ/Poor; strong w/tattered edges, losses to lower edges, and surface rubs. Bookshop sticker to front cover verso. Fiction. An American story of self-loss and self-discovery. Judas birds is a common name for decoys used to lure, or trap, other birds. There was a concrete Judas bird on the bird bath on the garden of aunt Agnes and uncle Father Joseph who raised orphan, Michael Cassidy --- that is until it was chipped off after having driven a cat crazy. Michael, growing up in an old house at the end of a dead end street, was punished by Aunt Agnes for the smallest of infractions. Novel begins with the death of Aunt Agnes, and Michael overturning 17 tombstones in the cemetery, lifts a wallet, leaves home, takes a job in a zoo, flubs a romantic attempt, goes home again, and accepts the "real existential decision, to work out your salvation with a tool you know… Read More

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1968 Library of Congress # 68-18777 Hardcover, first edition, VG with G+ Dj, 276 pages. Dj rubbed on surface and edges with creased, bent spine edges and small nicks. Book in nice solid condition, Some bending on spine edges and surface rubbing. Black cloth cover. Authors first book.. F. Hardcover.