DANGLING MAN
by Bellow, Saul
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus to Very Good
- Seller
-
Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Signet/New American Library, 1965. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage Paperback, Signet P2625; one of the early works from the award-winning Bellow, this novel, set in 1942 Chicago, features Joseph, a young man who has cut himself off from his wife, his work, his family and friends, who has gone to live in a boardinghouse, as he waits to be drafted and tries to confront what seems to be an empty future; front end page has bookseller's stamp and previous owner's name, o/w text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned; red pictorial wrappers show a nickel-sized square of black marker ink in upper corner of the front cover, with the previous owner's address sticker in the same corner on the obverse side of the cover, o/w very minimal surface and edgewear. Lack of a reading crease and tight binding indicates it may have remained unread since its original purchase over 40 years ago. Collectable.
Synopsis
Dangling Man is a 1944 novel by Saul Bellow. It is his first published work.
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Details
- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004006
- Title
- DANGLING MAN
- Author
- Bellow, Saul
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus to Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing, First Edition Thus.
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Signet/New American Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- MODERN NOVEL, FIRST EDITION, CHICAGO, VINTAGE PAPERBACK,WORLD WAR II, 1940S
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Novel; Vintage Paperback; Fine Literature;
Terms of Sale
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
All books subject to prior sale. All books returnable within two weeks for any reason. Please return by USPS (media mail rate) and note the reason for return. All sales subject to applicable taxes.
About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- O/W
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- Wrappers
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