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NEW FORMS OF UGLY
by Willeford, Charles
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0939767007
- ISBN 13
- 9780939767007
- Seller
-
Covina, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Miami Beach, Florida: Dennis McMillan Publications, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is copy no. 264 of 350 signed by Charles Willeford. A revised version of "The Immobilized Man: A New Hero In Modern Fiction," Willeford's University of Miami master's thesis. A survey of the literature of angst, covering writers from Fyodor Dostoevsky, through Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett, to Chester Himes and Saul Bellow. Small octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. Typical light toning to the contents; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71813
- Title
- NEW FORMS OF UGLY
- Author
- Willeford, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0939767007
- ISBN 13
- 9780939767007
- Publisher
- Dennis McMillan Publications
- Place of Publication
- Miami Beach, Florida
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Mystery, Hardboiled Fiction, Literary Criticism
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
About Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
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