Exercises in Style
by Queneau, Raymond
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Madison, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1958. 198pp. Yellow cloth boards, red titles on spine. Mild wear to boards, pages clean and unmarked. Slight offsetting to endpapers from glue beneath paste downs. Dust jacket is darkened but intact, with price on front jacket flap. Jacket in mylar. First edition in English of Queneau's virtuoso performance describing a minor bus brawl, 99 different ways. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
Synopsis
Exercises in Style, written by Raymond Queneau, is a collection of 99 retellings of the same story, each in a different style. In each, the narrator gets on the "S" bus (now no. 84), witnesses an altercation between a man with a long neck and funny hat and another passenger, and then sees the same person two hours later at the Gare St-Lazare getting advice on adding a button to his overcoat.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033507
- Title
- Exercises in Style
- Author
- Queneau, Raymond
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Gaberbocchus Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- Raymond Queneau, Exercises in Style, French literature, First Edition
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About the Seller
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Madison, New Jersey
About The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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