The Old Man and the Bureaucrats
by Mircea Eliade

Warmly inscribed by the Romanian-born
religious scholar and polymath


Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979. 128 pp. Crimson cloth with gilt lettering. First edition. Warmly inscribed by authr on front free endpaper, "For Morris [probably Morris Philipson, long time director of Univeristy of Chicago Press and novelist] & Suzy, / a (too short!..) / introduction in / the most recent Romanian mythology / affectionately / Mircea Eliade / Chicago, Jan. 15 / 1980." Fine in thoroughly-sunned dust jacket with small closed tear in top of back panel, unclipped. A novella set in Romania by the religious historian and University of Chicago professor, rarely found signed.

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