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New York: Arbor House, 1978. Hardcover. 185p., very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and lightly worn unclipped dust jacket. Young 3151*. Novel set in West Virginia.
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- Title Narrow Rooms
- Author Purdy, James
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 185
- Language ENG
- Publisher Arbor House Pub Co, New York
- Date 1978
- ISBN 9780877951834
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Narrow Rooms: a novel
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Square spine has a very subtle lean. Clean, unmarked interior. Only very light shelf-wear to the book. Jacket has several closed tears and chips, as well as a few small areas of light rubbing. 'I'm not a gay writer,' chronic contrarian Purdy once said. 'I'm a monster. Gay writers are too conservative.' Being published, he said, was like 'throwing a party for friends and all these coarse wicked people come instead, and break the furniture and vomit all over the house.' And: 'Critics would like to carry [my books] off to the shit-yard, [but] they can't, because they haunt people.' Often underappreciated by the American literary establishment, he was better received across the pond and by his request is interred next to the grave of Edith Sitwell, who helped him publish his early novella, 63: Dream Palace, in 1957. This first edition of Narrow Rooms, a book Derek Jarman attempted to adapt to film when he was in the process of dying, features a campily Michener-esque jacket design by Loretta Trezzo,…
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New York: Arbor House, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A bit of faint spotting on topedge, slight rubbing on the spine, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light toning.
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Arbor House Pub Co. Very Good. 1978. Hardcover. 0877951837 . Signed by author on title page and signed again opposite title page and dated April 26, 1978 Very good copy in very good DJ. ; 8.3 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches; 185 pages; Signed by Author .
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