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SKINNY ISLAND: More Tales of Manhattan.

SKINNY ISLAND: More Tales of Manhattan.

SKINNY ISLAND: More Tales of Manhattan.
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SKINNY ISLAND: More Tales of Manhattan.

by AUCHINCLOSS**, LOUIS:

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ISBN 10
0297792660
ISBN 13
9780297792666
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.4-colour block (black,white,grey and gold) pictorial illustrated upper wrap+spine/backstrip artwork by Anita Turpin,and b/w literary reviews to rear wrap with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Minisculely bumped with miniscule reciprocal creases to head+foot of spine/backstrip but no bumped corners.Top+fore-edges slightly aged and generally clean; contents bright,tight and clean.Unblemished,plain black paper-covered bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate,plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-230pp includes half-title+title pages,contents list,and 12 stories. It's only twelve miles long and two miles wide,but it has more money for its area,more history packed into its relatively brief settlement,and more emotional and intellectual energy coursing through its streets than any other place on earth.Manhattan is the setting for all of Louis Auchincloss's fiction,and it is the stage on which those New Yorkers whose roots go down to its bedrock play out the drama of their lives. From the turn of the century to our present urban follies,these stories follow the fortunes of the socially secure and powerful as they try to cope with the changes shaped by the momentous events and growing anxieties of recent decades.Taken together,the tales weave a larger pattern of human strengths and foibles that bemuses the mind and touches the heart.The elegant prose,crystalline dialogue, immense insight into the mores,preoccupations,and afflictions of the rich,and the connoisseur's sense of both art and life are characteristic of Auchincloss - all are here,but with a depth of passion and irony exceeding anything he has accomplished in the past. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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Bookseller
R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
SKINNY ISLAND: More Tales of Manhattan.
Author
AUCHINCLOSS**, LOUIS:
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
Jacket Condition
FINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0297792660
ISBN 13
9780297792666
Publisher
LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1988.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
1988
Keywords
q52.MODERN FIRSTS.UK,HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0297792660.MANHATTAN FICTION.DIARY OF A YUPPIE.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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