A Sport and A Pastime by James Salter. Paris Review Editions / Doubleday & Company. (1967). "First Edition" stated with no listing of later printings. 6"x 8 1/2" 191 pages Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gilt lettering on the spine is faded but still quite legible. Heavy wear on places of the spine. Otherwise, moderate cover edge wear.  Many of the pages have heavy bracketing, underlining and word circling. As far as I've seen, all the markings are in pencil, but still are quite heavy.  Otherwise, no tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. KK02a

     "Set in France in the early 1960s, the sad and tender story concerns the erotic affair of American middle-class college drop-out Phillip Dean and a young French girl, Anne-Marie, as witnessed by a self-consciously unreliable narrator. The unnamed narrator freely admits that much of his observation is in fact his own fantasy of the couple, and includes a number of sexually explicit descriptions of their day-to-day existence as he imagines it.
      The book is generally regarded by critics as a modern classic. In The New York Times Book Review, novelist and critic Reynolds Price wrote, "Of living novelists, none has produced a novel I admire more than A Sport and a Pastime ... it's as nearly perfect as any American fiction I know."[2] The critic and biographer Adam Begley, in The New York Times Magazine, called it "extraordinary ... The book feels utterly true."[3] After Salter's death in 2015, the novel has continued to receive critical attention. " - Wikipedia