Adam Bellow wants you to buy his father's desk. We'd rather save you the money and sell you a book Saul Bellow wrote at that desk.

“It’s not going very well,” Daniel Bellow, son of Nobel-prize-winning author Saul Bellow, said of the attempt to sell his late father’s mahogany roll-top desk. His classified advertisement offering the massive Victorian-era desk for $10,000 has run in the New York Review of Books and appeared on the publication’s website for two weeks. The desk has a “leather writing surface, pigeonholes” and “appears in book jacket photo,” the ad says.

The enticements haven’t yet worked, even among an audience Mr. Bellow considered disposed toward memorabilia from the author of “Mr. Sammler’s Planet,” “Humboldt’s Gift” and other novels. “I guess space is expensive on the Upper West Side. Nobody’s got room for a giant piece of furniture,” Mr. Bellow said. “I thought, well, this will provoke discussion. But it really didn’t.”

...Once he knew he was moving, he turned to the New York Review, he said, because “these are people who love Saul Bellow. But loving Saul Bellow is one thing and agreeing to take on a large piece of furniture is another.”

We have an alternative for Bellowmanes- a first edition:

Bellow, Saul, More Die of Heartbreak (William Morrow, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1987). ISBN 0-688-06935-5. “I am a phoenix,” one character says, “who runs after arsonists.” A sex farce about two midwestern academics by the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner (1915-2005). Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Kindly private message us for pricing and to make an offer.

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