The Absurd Hero in American Fiction: Updike, Styron, Bellow, Salinger
by GALLOWAY, David D
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey with metallic blue spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 257pp. Very good/good only. Jacket quite edgeworn and rubbed, with large chips at head and tail of spine. A tight and nice first edition, with ownership signature on front flyleaf of academic and literary critic Joseph J. Waldmeir (1923-2013), author of such titles as "Recent American Fiction: Some Critical Views" (1963) and "American Novels of the Second World War" (1969).
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39842
- Title
- The Absurd Hero in American Fiction: Updike, Styron, Bellow, Salinger
- Author
- GALLOWAY, David D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Place of Publication
- Austin
- Date Published
- 1966
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Literary Criticism;
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.