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Locos: A Comedy of Gestures
by ALFAU, Felipe
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very good
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar and Rinhart, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Sextodecimo. 4.5 x 7.5 in. xiv, 306 pp. Fine in the original brick-red cloth boards with bright gilt titling, a firm binding, and clean pages, with a very good illustrated dust jacket that has ordinary shelf wear on the edges, corners, and top of the spine. Signed by Alfau in blue ink on a special page noting the first edition is limited to 1250 copies. Alfau numbered this copy 761. Laid-in Farrar Publisher's subscriber's note.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bagatelle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5352
- Title
- Locos: A Comedy of Gestures
- Author
- ALFAU, Felipe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Farrar and Rinhart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- METAFICTION
Terms of Sale
Bagatelle Books, IOBA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bagatelle Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2019
Asheville, North Carolina
About Bagatelle Books, IOBA
We are a brick-and-mortar independent bookstore in West Asheville, North Carolina.
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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