Mark Dintenfass. 
 
Little, Brown: 1970. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Soiling and folds on the jacket. Tears and folds along the top and bottom of the jacket. Spine slightly cocked. Slight foxing on the text block. 246 pages. Jacket good, book very good. Inscribed to the author's friends, Sandra and Jack. 
 
Org preaches gluttony as a way of, and beyond, life. Ecstasy, for the eloquent and oft defeated Org, is immortality. Bright burning prose aplenty in Mark Dintenfass's second novel about the life of a modern Falstaff, and it is the only signed, not to mention inscribed, copy out there. To his friends he wrote, "feelings only deepens and ripen with time." 
 
"I grasp a chocolate cherry which first I contemplate and then devour, biting ah! down deep into the oozing cherry heart. My life, my world, my ectsasy ... Listen, one must choose to be obese."