Emergency Messages: An Autobiographical Miscellany
by Carl Solomon
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good signed book, top right corner half-title page inscription, light shelf wear and soiled edges
- ISBN 10
- 1557781788
- ISBN 13
- 9781557781789
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Paragon House, 1979. First trade edition. Perfect-bound, octavo, pictorial wraps, [10], xvii, 235 pp. Very good signed book, top right corner half-title page inscription, light shelf wear and soiled edges. Carl Solomon spent many years in and out of psychiatric hospitals from the late 1940s through the mid 1960s, decrying the shams of societal values and institutions. He was a writer on the margins of all he opposed, and later in life eventually circling back to where he began with balance, becoming a devotee of his local Shul, steadying his mental state and holding a steady job as a messenger while still self-identifying as a Dostoyevsky character.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1999
- Title
- Emergency Messages
- Author
- Carl Solomon
- Format/Binding
- Perfect-bound, octavo, pictorial wraps, [10], xvii, 235 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good signed book, top right corner half-title page inscription, light shelf wear and soiled edges
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First trade edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1557781788
- ISBN 13
- 9781557781789
- Publisher
- Paragon House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Carl Solomon, Emergency Messages
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- Pictorial Wraps
- Pictorial wraps are color illustrated covers for paperback books. Preceding mass-market paperbacks, this format brought popular...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...