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GILES GOAT-BOY
by JOHN BARTH
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good or better
- Seller
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Hudson, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Black cloth, gold lettering, a little missing on the Doubleday bottom spine, not much. Minor foxing(?) to top edge. Book has a very slight smudge bottom edge. Book is very clean no markings, very tight(unread) and square. The DJ is price intact, but has chipping along the edges main ones are bottom spine and top front near the spine(also a tear/wrinkles), check refreshed photos for details, and a wear/tear/wrinkles(near botton spine to the rear cover) in Brodart to preserve it now, still looks nice. . Unknown Printing but early edition code on last page is H27. Same year as the first 1966 on title page.
Synopsis
Giles Goat-Boy (or The Revised New Syllabus of George Giles our Grand Tutor) is a 1966 novel written by John Barth. It is a satire and allegory of the American campus culture of the time. A paperback edition was issued in Garden City, N.Y. by Anchor Books in 1987 with ISBN 0-385-24086-4 . It is centered on the hero, George Giles, and his rise from farm animal to Grand Tutor of the New Tammany College. His quest is singularly to be a hero, but the tale is a multifaceted one of his becoming.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pulitzer Prize Books.com
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ggbjbh27
- Title
- GILES GOAT-BOY
- Author
- JOHN BARTH
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good or better
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition UNKOWN PRINTING
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Pages
- 710
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2005
Hudson, Florida
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I am a private collector, mainly Pulitzer Prize winners, but I inherited 1000's of hardcovers and looking to sell them off. I will be relocating in the near future, and need to lighten the load.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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