Dildo Cay
by Nelson Hayes
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good +
- Seller
-
Waccabuc, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940. Pictorial cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. The 1940 1st edition of what has to be one of the great titles of all time for a conventional, serious novel. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with very light creasing along the edges. "Ainsworths do not marry for love. They choose their women to carry on the line -- thoroughbreds who can endure the loneliness and the eternal wind of the Ainsworth island -- Dildo Cay. This speck in the Atlantic lies six hundred miles southeast of Great Bahama. Here the Ainsworths have lived for eleven generations -- the one white family among two hundred blacks." (from the dustjacket flap). Long live Dildo Cay!!
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20449
- Title
- Dildo Cay
- Author
- Nelson Hayes
- Format/Binding
- Pictorial cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- rare fiction, are modern first editions, rare tropical literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
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