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Half of Paradise
by Burke, James Lee
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.95), lightly rubbed at the edges. Brown buckram with a brown ink panel on the spine with white ink lettering. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean and a brown top stain, clean internally. Burke's debut novel about the harsh lives of three Louisana men that "evokes the white-hot violence of convicts in a jailbreak, the passion and lyric sweetness of Avery's love affair in New Orleans, J.P.'s tawdry world of brothels and cheap politicians and one-night stands, the terror of Toussaint's last-ditch struggle against the bullets and bloodhounds of his pursuers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3855
- Title
- Half of Paradise
- Author
- Burke, James Lee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Southern Literature, Louisiana, New Orleans, Drugs, Underground, American Literature
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- Spine
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- Edges
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