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Exhumations
by Christopher Isherwood
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. 1st/1st. VG/VG. First Edition, stated First Printing. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good corners, and clean and unmarred turquoise cloth boards. There is a thin blue stain on the bottom side fore-edges. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($5.00) with mild soiling and light wear to the spine. 254 pages. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover.
Exhumations is a collection of Isherwood's stories, book reviews, articles, and verses written over a period of almost forty years; 'fragments', as the author himself called them, 'of an autobiography which tells itself indirectly, by means of exhibits'. From those delightful lines which begin: The common cormorant (or shag)/ Lays eggs inside a paper bag ... to the reflections of this Quaker writer on the Bhagavad-Gita's seeming approval of war; from a hilarious preparatory-school story to solid comment on Baudelaire, Wells, Santayana, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and many other people, these exhibits provide intriguing evidence about a witty and many-sided personality.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2641
- Title
- Exhumations
- Author
- Christopher Isherwood
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Brodart
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- Jacket
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- VG/VG
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