The Dead Father

Bookseller

Better Read Than Dead (US)

Bookseller's Inventory #

1699

Title

The Dead Father

Author

Donald Barthelme

Illustrator

Jacket design by Ruth Ansel

Format/Binding

Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, gray end papers, pictorial dust jacket, 177 pp

Book Condition

Used - Very good book, top edge dust-soiled, fore and bottom edge lightly foxed; very good dust jacket

Quantity Available

1

Edition

First edition, first printing

Binding

Hardcover

ISBN 10

0374135355

ISBN 13

9780374135355

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Place of Publication

New York

Date Published

1975

Keywords

Donald Barthelme, Barthelme, The Dead Father, Dead Father

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Gilt

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Jacket

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Cloth

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Spine

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