The Little Disturbances of Man
by PALEY, Grace
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Andre Deutsch, 1969. Second UK edition. 8vo. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing and sunning to spine ends, slight lean to spine, top corners bumped. Top edge foxed, others toned. In the Michael Heawood-designed dust jacket: toned, gentle creasing and edgewear. Very good/ very good This was Paley's first book, with a number of the short stories later included in her Pulitzer-nominated 1984 Collected Stories. The first British edition was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1960, with this second edition required as, over the next decade, "Miss Paley's 'underground' reputation built up" (front flap). Rear panel features advert for Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2257
- Title
- The Little Disturbances of Man
- Author
- PALEY, Grace
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....