Penguins 2611 - Ahead of the Game Four Versions of Avant-Garde

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published in the U.S.A. as The Bride and the Batchelors, 1962 Printed in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1965 Published in Penguin Books 1968 Copyright © Calvin Tomkins, 1962, 1964, 1965

Except for the Introduction, the text of this book appeared originally in somewhat different form in the New Yorker

Made and printed in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, London, Reading and Fakenham Set in Monotype Modern

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