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Great Days
by Donald Barthelme
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Lake Huntington, New York, United States
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About This Item
172 pp. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.25 in. First British edition. A fine DJ, now in an archival cover and a fine volume, perfect, but for a small black mark in the bright orange cloth near the gutter of the spine. Contents: The Crisis, The Apology, The New Music, Cortès and Montezuma, The King of Jazz, The Question Party, Belief, Tales of the Swedish Army, The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Death of Edward Lear, Concerning the Bodyguard, The Zombies, Morning, On the Steps of the Conservatory, The Leap, and Great Days. "Man, you from out of town or something? What do you mean you refuse to play 'Smoke'? How'd you get on this gig anyhow? Who hired you?"
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Details
- Bookseller
- Veery Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 210112
- Title
- Great Days
- Author
- Donald Barthelme
- Format/Binding
- Orange cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First British ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Routledge & Kegan Paul
- Place of Publication
- London and Henley
- Date Published
- 1979
- Pages
- 172
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- First Editions, Fiction, Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; First Editions;
Terms of Sale
Veery Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Veery Books
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Lake Huntington, New York
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- Fine
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- Gutter
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- New
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