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Fair. 1962, Bantam Book, nice cover art. Reading copy only, Reading copy only, has significant to heavy reading/age wear and tear, may have some staining or water damage, pages may be tanned or fragile, may have loose hinges, may have light to heavy markings, not collector/gift quality. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.
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Fair. Reading copy only, has significant to heavy reading/age wear and tear, may have some staining or water damage, pages may be tanned or fragile, may have loose hinges, may have light to heavy markings, not collector/gift quality. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.
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Very good. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, First edition octavo. Advance reading copy bound in gray printed wrappers. Large wrinkle at the top edge otherwise a good copy.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Fine in price-clipped about very good dust jacket with some modest stains on the front panel, and a bit of spine-toning. Signed by Bourjaily and dated in 1951. The author's first book, about an ambulance driver in the Middle East during World War II, which includes several prominent gay characters portrayed with honesty and surprisingly casual concern for their orientation. Slide, *Lost Gay Novels* 7.
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Very Good in Good jacket. First edition. Octavo. 278pp. Endpapers have light offset browning, else a very good copy in good, edge-worn dust jacket worn at extremitie, with shallow chips and small brown stain on spine. Inscribed by Bourjaily in an early hand to Bowdoin College classmates: "To Bibbo & Burt-and, far Niente, to which name I lived up admirably as regards this thing. Affectionately, Vance" ALSO laid into the book is a Typed Letter Signed, one octavo page with five paragraphs from Iowa City, dated July 24, 1969, to "Dear Bibbo and Burt." The TLS begins: "The 25th reunion for 1944 was certainly one I'd hoped to attend, but somehow assumed Bowdoin Commencement would be earlier in June...I'd committed myself to doing some work in Colorado...So I missed seeing all those guys again...There were some pretty odd-looking birds in the Rockies--bluebirds the wrong shade of blue...magpies twice as big as I'd ever imagined a magpie looking; but the best creatures around for inspection were the trout, healthiest, brightest fish I'd ever seen from fresh water...Meanwhile, speaking of blue birds, we've hatched out broods in five of twenty-nine boxes that I'm sure of...one brood lost to a snake...We all send love. Fondly, Vance." For the inscribed book and signed letter. $275.
An interesting, if somewhat dated book. This is what the early Hemingway was trying to write. The style and language is fixed in its time period, shortly before the US entry to WWII, so the book can seem quaint and dated. But the vocabulary and way of expressing thoughts is exceptional. It is a book that seems light but which requires the reader to "fill in the blanks" to an extent the reader either becomes deeply engaged or is turned off.
It is said to have had a great influence on several more famous writers who were starting out at that time. A careful reader will see those traces.
I would recommend the book, though it long has been out of print.
