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New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1962. Hardcover. Good/Good.
The Birdcage by Bowen, John - 1962-01-01
by Bowen, John
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The Birdcage
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Harper & Row, 1962-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. Harper & Row [Published Date: 1962]. Hardcover, 208 pp. Stated First Edition. Good in good dust jacket. Rose colored Paper over Boards with black cloth and gold lettering on spine. Light bumping, scuffing and fading to edges of covers. Binding tight. Previous owners address label of front free end paper. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked. Dust jacket has several 1" or less nicks and tears and creasing along edges. Light to moderate overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. Price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From jacket flaps] Admirers of prewar Waugh, of Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson are hard up for novels to read between times. John Bowen emerges as the answer - very much his own man but belonging to the same order and exhibiting its characteristics: dead-pan observation of the human comedy; cool, meticulous reporting of the outrageous; impiety as lightly worn as a well-cut jacket. The opening passage of The Birdcage brushes with moth-wing impudence one of the most hallowed scenes in today's intellectual canon: a pair of lovers at a table among the pigeons of the Piazza San Marco. The final chapter, entitled "Only Connect," raises an interrogative and perhaps impertinent eyebrow in the direction of E. Morgan Forster himself. In between, The Birdcage relates the events of a year or two in the lives of Norah Palmer and Peter Ash, who, when our story opens, have been living together for nine years without marriage, an arrangement satisfactory from the point of view of tax saving and practical in every other respect. The Birdcage is frequently hilarious, at times ruthless, in places moving. It does not solicit the reader's patronage. It will, however, repay his curiosity with a full measure of adult entertainment. Born in India in 1924, John Bowen spent a childhood in England, shuttled among aunts, grandparents, and boarding schools. His war service was in the Indian Army, and after the war he went to Oxford, where he was awarded the Frere Exhibition in Indian Studies for two years running. He spent a year in this country, partly at Ohio State University, partly at the Kenyon School of Letters, and partly hitchhiking. He has taught English, worked as assistant editor of a glossy magazine, and as a copywriter for one advertising agency and copy chief of another. He gave up advertising to "live of his own" in 1960. Mr. Bowen has written books for children, radio plays, television plays, a theater play, and five novels, and has appeared on radio and television, mostly on the B.B.C.'s Third Programme and on television programs about the arts. He has written and broadcast criticism, not only about literature, but about ballet and the theater. His four previous novels published in England have all been widely and well received; of one, The Center of the Green, published in America, Dorothy Parker wrote, "Sure, disciplined, beautiful writing . . . you hate to turn the pages, thus bringing the end closer. I have no more heartfelt tribute to offer a novel.
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Faber and Faber. First Edition. HARDCOVER. Very Good/Very Good. We're happy to combine shipping to save you some money. We're also always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of any and all books for you, please just ask! British first edition, first printing. Published in 1962.Jacket is in Very Good + condition. Light rubbing to jacket. Jacket is NOT price clipped. Jacket is in a Mylar cover. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. The binding is straight and tight. No remainder mark.
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Faber and Faber, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1964. None Stated. 208 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are mildly foxed & tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding is firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Light crushing to spine. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped jacket. Panels have light edge wear with tears and creasing.
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The Birdcage
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London: Faber, 1962. Book. Fine (Book Condition). Hardcover. First Edition. An excellent copy with light soiling to white jacket. Price-clipped. Text clean, binding strong. [ Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near Fine 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair ].
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New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Hardcover. 208p., initials in red ink on f.e.p., good US first edition in quarter-cloth boards, gilt and worn, price-clipped dj. Young 361.
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Faber And Faber, 2008. Paperback. New. 208 pages. 8.50x5.31x0.59 inches.
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1st printing. Near Fine hardcover in Good DJ. Rose paper over boards backed with black cloth, gilt and red titles on spine. Bright, clean, square covers and spine are As New; dusty text block top edge; tightly bound; author's New York literary agent name and address stamped on front fly leaf; light, clean interior. DJ is clean; lightly scuffed; pale foxing-like spots along edges; 1 inch chip missing at rear cover tail edge. 8vo, 208 pp.
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The Birdcage
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New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Hardcover. 208p., very good US first edition in quarter-cloth boards, gilt and worn, unclipped dj. Young 361.
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The Birdcage
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Penguin, 1964. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. Slight rubbing to wraps, no creasing, fading or tears, some very light soiling. No inscriptions, bright and clean internally with little wear, some browning to page edges. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK.
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The Birdcage
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New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine and brown paper over boards, price-clipped dust jacket. 208pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn, with one edge chip and several archivally-closed (on verso) edge tears. A tight and nice first edition. YOUNG 361.
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