Uncommon signed book: The Floating Opera. First edition. NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 280 pages. Signed and inscribed on the half-title page in blue ballpoint, "For Joe Collins, John Barth." In very good to fine condition, with toning, soiling, and sunning to the dust jacket. A desirable example of Barth's first book.
