Fiction : Postwar from Philip Smith, Bookseller
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The Atlantic, Volume 217, Number 3 (Atlantic Monthly Magazine, March 1966) - includes The Boiler Room, the first published story by Rudolph Wurlitzer
by Manning, Robert, et al. (eds.), Rudolph Wurlitzer, Robert Lowell, Pauline Kael (on Marlon Brando), Erich Leinsdorf, Isaac Babel, W. S. Merwin, Donald Hall, et al
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket (as issued)
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Published
- 1966
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$30.00
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Boston, MA: The Atlantic Monthly Company, 1966. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 164pp, printed wrappers. This issue of the Atlantic Monthly features Rudolph Wurlitzer's fiction debut; Kale on Brando; etc. Unmarked copy, small staple puncture to front cover, a bit of general wear. Item Price
$30.00
Genoa : A Telling of Wonders (Jargon 43)
by Metcalf, Paul
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket (as issued)
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Published
- 1973 [1965]
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- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$20.00
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Penland, NC: The Jargon Society, 1973 [1965]. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, [viii]+192pp, printed wrappers. 1973 printing of the Jargon Society edition of this Melville-referencing experimental novel first published in 1965. Unmarked copy, a little foxing to page edges and minor sunning. Item Price
$20.00
Eat This! - INSCRIBED copy
by Veitch, Tom (author), Greg Irons (cover), Opal Louis Nations (association copy)
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket (as issued)
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- 1st edition
- Published
- 1974
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- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$60.00
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New York: Angel Hair Books, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Tom Veitch to fellow author Opal Louis Nations in 1975. 1 of 1000 stated copies of this collection of experimental texts, with cover lettering by Greg Irons. Light cover soil and minor wear, sound overall. Item Price
$60.00
Country Cooking and Other Stories
by Mathews, Harry
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket (as issued)
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- 1st edition
- Published
- 1980
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- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780930900823
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$50.00
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Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1980. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 92pp, printed wrappers. Unmarked copy (from the collection of Opal Louis Nations) of this experimental work by gladsome 'Pataphysician Harry Mathews, nicely designed and printed by Burning Deck. Light edgewear, sound overall. Item Price
$50.00
Antlers in the Treetops - INSCRIBED copy
by Padgett, Ron, and Tom Veitch (authors), George Schneeman (cover), Opal Louis Nations (association copy)
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket (as issued)
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- 1st edition
- Published
- 1973
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- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$60.00
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Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 144pp, printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Tom Veitch (as "Tom & Ron") to fellow author Opal Louis Nations. 1 of 1000 stated copies of this experimental text, with cover by George Schneeman. Unmarked copy, some spotting to covers. Item Price
$60.00
Puritan Porn
by Southern, Terry (author), Norman Conquest (illustrator)
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket (as issued)
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- 1st edition
- Published
- 2007
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- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$120.00
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Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2007. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 40pp, sewn wrappers. Number 20 of 80 copies of this chapbook publication collecting three short works by Terry Southern. Unmarked copy, minor wear. Item Price
$120.00
The Donkey and the Darling
by Southern, Terry
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket (as issued)
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- 1st edition
- Published
- 2005
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- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$100.00
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Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2005. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 40pp, sewn wrappers. Number 28 of 60 copies of this chapbook publication constituting the first complete version of a 1956 story written by Southern for a group of children he knew whilst living in Geneva. Unmarked copy, faint sunning. Item Price
$100.00
Fiction, Volume 2, Number 1 (1973)
by Mirsky, Mark, and Faith Sale (eds.), John Lennon, Donald Barthelme, Alfred Jarry, Robert Stone, Jerome Charyn, Max Frisch, Mimi Gross Grooms, Elsa Dorfman, et al
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- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket (as issued)
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$30.00
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New York: Fiction, Inc, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. Tabloid, 28pp. Co-edited by Thomas Pynchon's editor Faith Sale (around the time of Gravity's Rainbow". Includes work by John Lennon (1/2 page fiction), Alfred Jarry, Robert Stone, and Donald Barthelme. Nicely preserved copy with typical toning of newsprint stock. Item Price
$30.00
The Sewanee Review, Volume 73, Number 2 (LXXIII; Spring 1965) - includes The Dark Waters by Cormac McCarthy (his first literary appearance)
by Lytle, Andrew (ed.), Cormac McCarthy, Edward Dahlberg, Patrick Boyle, Kathleen Raine, et al
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket (as issued)
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- 1st edition
- Published
- 1965
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- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$500.00
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Sewanee, TN: The University of the South, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 184pp, printed wrappers. Contains the first literary appearance of Cormac McCarthy (The Dark Waters, an advance excerpt from his first novel, The Orchard Keeper). An unmarked copy with some wear and small closed tears to the lap cover edges (as usual)… Read more about this item Item Price
$500.00
The Sewanee Review, Volume 73, Number 4 (LXXIII; Autumn 1965) - includes a review of The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy
by Lytle, Andrew (ed.), Cormac McCarthy (reviewed by Walter Sullivan), Kathleen Raine, Harry Brewster, Andrew Lytle, Brewster Ghiselin, et al
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket (as issued)
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- 1st edition
- Published
- 1965
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- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$200.00
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Sewanee, TN: The University of the South, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 226pp, printed wrappers. Issue includes a review of Cormac McCarthy's first novel (The Orchard Keeper) along with other works by Southern-associated authors. An unmarked copy with some wear and small closed tears to the lap cover edges (as usual); one leaf… Read more about this item Item Price
$200.00
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The Sacred Hoop : A Cycle of Earth Tales - INSCRIBED first edition
by Broder, Bill
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Published
- 1979
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$25.00
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San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1979. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. VG in VG+ dw. INSCRIBED by the author on the FFEP. 8vo, 256pp, blind-stamped oatmeal cloth with spine stamped in gold. An ambitious work of historical fiction published by the Sierra Club. A few pieces of ephemera relating to the author are laid in. Book is… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
Saint Genet : Actor and Martyr
by Sartre, Jean-Paul (on Jean Genet), Bernard Frechtman (translator)
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- Used - Fine
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- Very Good
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- 1st edition
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- 1963
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$25.00
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New York: George Braziller, 1963. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in VG dw. Large 8vo, viii+626pp, black cloth stamp in silver and purple, printed dustwrapper. Nice copy of the first American edition of this English translation of a monumental work on Genet by Sartre. Cloth has minor soil to back cover (internally clean), jacket has price… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
The Wapshot Scandal
by Cheever, John
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st edition
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- 1964
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$20.00
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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Early (but not first) printing of the first edition. VG in VG dw. 8vo, [viii]+312pp, light blue cloth with spine stamped in black and gold, printed dustwrapper. A clean copy (no markings) with slight bumping to edges; mylar-protected jacket has 0164 dateline and is not… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
Fiction, Volume 1, Number 2 (Fall 1972)
by Mirsky, Mark (ed.), Faith Sale (associate ed.), J. G. Ballard, Rudolph Wurlitzer, Samuel Beckett, Robert Creeley, Thomas McGuane, Kenneth Koch, John Barth, et al
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- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket (as issued)
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$60.00
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New York: Fiction, Inc, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. Tabloid, 28pp (has been stored flat). Co-edited by Thomas Pynchon's editor Faith Sale (around the time of the editing of Gravity's Rainbow). Includes work by J. G. Ballard, Rudolph Wurlitzer, Samuel Beckett, Robert Creeley, Thomas McGuane, Kenneth Koch, John Barth, et al. Well… Read more about this item Item Price
$60.00
The California Quarterly, Volume 1, Number 2 (Winter 1952) - includes "A Flight of Ravens" by Ray Bradbury
by Spingarn, Lawrence, et al. (eds.), Ray Bradbury, B. Traven, Aime Cesaire, Edwin Honig, Thomas McGrath, et al
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket (as issued)
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- 1st edition
- Published
- 1952
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- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$30.00
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Los Angeles: The California Quarterly, Inc, 1952. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Includes short stories by Ray Bradbury and B. Traven. Light toning and wear to wrappers, no markings. Item Price
$30.00
New World Writing 4 : Fourth Mentor Selection (1953)
by Porter, Arabel J. (ed)., Gore Vidal, Shelby Foote, Jorge Luis Borges, James T. Farrell, Nadine Gordimer, Theodore Roethke, Patrick Kavanagh, Willem De Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Morris Graves, Saul Steinberg, et al
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- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket (as issued)
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- 1st edition
- Published
- 1953
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- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$25.00
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New York: New American Library, 1953. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 12mo, 320pp, printed wrappers. An uncommonly sharp copy of the 1953 first printing of the fourth volume of this important series. Includes Gore Vidal, Borges, and a portfolio of current art. No markings, light toning and wear. Item Price
$25.00
Encounter 6 (Volume 2, Number 3, March 1954) -- includes an early version of My Dog, Tulip by J. R. Ackerley
by Spender, Stephen, and Irving Kristol (eds.), J. R. Ackerley, Robert Warshow, Albert Camus, Marianne Moore, Theodore Roethke, Leslie Fiedler, Leonard Woolf, et al
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket (as issued)
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- 1st edition
- Published
- 1954
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- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$30.00
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London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1954. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 80pp, printed wrappers. Features an early excerpt from My Dog, Tulip by J. R. Ackerley, recounting the emotional relationship between the author and his Alsatian. The text was subsequently enlarged to a book, much praised by Truman Capote and others.… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
Through the Black Curtain (Bancroft Library Keepsake 35)
by Kingston, Maxine Hong
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- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket (as issued)
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- 1st edition
- Published
- 1987
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- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$25.00
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Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1987. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Fine. 8vo, 36pp, printed wrappers. One of an unspecified number of copies of this elegant Bancroft Library keepsake designed and printed by the Arion Press. Clean and unmarked copy, just about as new. Item Price
$25.00
The Story of a Story & Three Stories (Bancroft Library Keepsake 30)
by West, Jessamyn
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- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket (as issued)
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- 1st edition
- Published
- 1982
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- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$25.00
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Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1982. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 68pp, printed wrappers. One of an unspecified number of copies of this elegant Bancroft Library keepsake designed and printed by the Arion Press. Includes a frontispiece portrait of the author and a fold-out reproduction of a manuscript page.… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
Black Mountain Dossiers No. 6 : Michael Rumaker (Eroticizing the Nation: Michael Rumaker's Fiction)
by Rumaker, Michael, and Leverett T. Smith, Jr
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- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket (as issued)
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- 1st edition
- Published
- 1999
- Binding
- Soft cover
- ISBN
- 9780964902060
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Berkeley, California, USA
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$25.00
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Asheville, NC: Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, 1999. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, v+99pp, printed wrappers. An illustrated overview of Rumaker's career, includes an interview with the author. A 1999 cover letter from the publishers to a San Francisco patron of the work is laid in. Unmarked copy, light wear… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00