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New York: Ace Books, Inc, 1968. Paperback. Very Good. Softcover. c.1968. Mass Market Paperback. 254pp. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, heavy tanning inside covers, some age toning to contents. Scarce!
Whence All But He Had Fled by Davis, L. J - 1968
by Davis, L. J
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Whence All But He Had Fled
by Davis, L. J
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ace Books, 1968. Book. Very Good Plus. Soft cover. First Printing. Condition is very good plus, small light crease on edge of back cover, slight indentations on front cover from something heavy sitting the book, corners bumped, light edge wear, edge of spine rubbed with some chipping, pages are tight and clean, with some tanning, no writing or stamps, cover is bright and glossy, a nice looking book........**We have other books in this genre in stock and offer discounts in shipping on additional books, please contact us for more information**.....WRAPPED IN PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK.......Summary - . Robert Probish was eighteen when he escaped from his dull, mindless family in Queens and went to live in the East Village. He had no idea what he was getting into - but then, neither has his new neightbors..
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- Date Published 1968
- Keywords FICTION
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Whence All But He Had Fled
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New York: Viking, 1968. FIrst Edition. Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket. Gray boards backed with brown cloth, gilt lettering stamped to spine. 247 pp. Very Good in a Very Good jacket.. Jacket design by Abner Graboff. Debut novel from L.P. Davis about a young Boise transplant to the New York City of the late 60s, the previously-underknown author whose star has recently risen thanks to the critical attention of Jonathan Lethem and a reissue of his follow-up novel A Meaningful Life on New York Review of Books.
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Whence All But he Had Fled
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New York: Viking, 1968. 247pp. Brown cloth over gray boards. Gilt titles on spine. Binding tight, corners solid, slight spine lean. Text block clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows mild wear at spine ends but remains intact, not price clipped. Davis's debut novel, in which Robert Probish leaves his home in Queens and moves to a tenement on the Lower East Side, in an attempt to find himself. His efforts lead nowhere - the world around him insists on tormenting him, one way after another - and he finds himself alone in the end. One of Davis's four novels, which include A Meaningful Life, reissued in 2009 with an introductory essay by Jonathan Lethem. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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WHENCE ALL BUT HE HAD FLED
by Davis, L J ( Lawrence James)
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NY 1968 first edition. Viking. Hardcover octavo. Author's first book. 247p. MINT. Fine in Fine DJ. as New. Brooklyn, NY, writer, educated at Stanford and Columbia, lived 1940-2010. .
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WHENCE ALL BUT HE HAD FLED
by Davis, L. J
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New York: The Viking Press, 1968. Unrevised Proofs. Paperback. A very good copy with a few broken green plastic teeth of the plastic spiral binding at the bottom, no dust jacket, as issued. Author's first book. New York's East Village is a challenging arena for one's formative years and a fictional favorite for first novels. Anything goes. In this case it happens to 18-year-old Robert Probish. Refugee from bleak family life in Queens with vague artistic leanings. Robert is really unformed. And shapeless. His overly solicitous landlord Mr. Goldfarb almost turns him anti-Semitic; his hang-over friends from high school use his tenement pad for love-ins; a neighbor's boyfriend threatens to emasculate him; another neighbor, Stark, a gloomy artist from Nebraska, fascinates and antagonizes him. In these short weeks Probish's friends gas him with roach spray; send him out on a "mixed drink" trip (LSD and amphetamine); he is used by Stark to contact an old benefactor (an aging homosexual); and eventually…
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