Eligible Men: Three Short Novels
by Elkin, Stanley
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0575018976
- ISBN 13
- 9780575018976
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Inscribed on the title page: "For Christie and Robert, Stanley Elkin [in his usual scribbled form], 9-1-79." [10], 304 p.; 21 cm. Brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Dust jacket with photograph of the author on the back section. First published in the United States in 1973 by Random House under the title Searches and Seizures. Contents: The Bailbondsman -- The Making of Ashenden -- The Condominium. Stanley Lawrence Elkin (1930-1995), Brooklyn-born, Chicago-raised, and University of Illinois-educated novelist, essayist, and short-story writer, spent most of his adult life teaching at Washington University in St. Louis. He twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the 1991 National Book Award for Fiction. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Dust Jacket is in Near Fine Condition: lightly rubbed.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003389
- Title
- Eligible Men: Three Short Novels
- Author
- Elkin, Stanley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0575018976
- ISBN 13
- 9780575018976
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1974
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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