A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
by BOWLES, Paul
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1962. First Edition. First Printing, one of 3,000 copies. Octavo (18cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers; [4],5-63,[1]pp. Light wear, with a faint, shallow tide mark to lower wrappers (affecting lower margins of first and last few pages), and upper rear wrapper; Very Good. A collection of four short stories "of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world" (from rear wrapper); MILLER A11.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62739
- Title
- A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
- Author
- BOWLES, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- City Lights Books
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1962
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...