In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader.
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In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader.
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Dust jacket in good condition. First edition THUS. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Very Good. First edition. Tall octavo. Illustrated. Pictorial wrappers. Wraps lightly rubbed and edgeworn, a bit of faint spotting, very good. The original appearance of this short fiction, comprising the entire issue of this magazine. Issued as TriQuarterly Supplement Number Two.
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Very Good. 1968. Northwestern University Press. Evanston, 1968. Wraps. 4to. Book is Very Good. Unpaginated. Quite illustrated. Leaves of blue, olive green, red, and glossy white. Some edge-wear to wraps, and very slight wrinkling at the spine. All is fine internally. (Subject: Literary Criticism. )
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Good. Third printing; covers a bit curled; bottom edge stamped; small ink mark on front free endpaper; still, a striking copy of an increasingly scarce volume.
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Fine in Very Good+ jacket. Cloth; dust jacket; 4to. Designed by Lawrence Levy, with photography by Burton L. Rudman. Book is fine, in lightly rubbed and scratched dust jacket.
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Very good in Very good jacket. Jacket is rubbed, but creasing and small closed tears on edges, but text and images are clear and legible. Cover is lightly sunned on top edge and lightly bumped on corners. Previous owner's black ink inscription on half-titlepage. Inside is otherwise clean and unmarked.