Lovers and Tyrants (corrected typescript photocopy)
by Gray, Francine du Plessix
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Eureka, California, United States
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About This Item
Simon and Schuster, Inc, 1976. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 357 pages typed on recto only. First edition (first printing) of corrected typescript. A fine copy in custom black cloth clamshell box. With holograph signed typed letter from Dan Green of Simon & Schuster, Inc.: 'April 16, 1976, Mr. Digby Diehl, Los Angeles Times, Times-Mirror Square, Los Angeles, California. Dear Digby, Here is the manuscript you refused to sclepp around New York, meaning you are the only person to date who hasn't done a veritable zippedy do dah dance to be the first on their block to read Francine du Plessix Gray's first novel LOVERS AND TYRANTS. The advance build-up is merited, I myself think it is the best novel we've ever published, a book so overwhelmingly readable, wonderful, funny, hurting, moving, devastating that is to say it begins like Mary McCarthy, is like an American Proust and a feminine Portnoy's Complaint is simply to misrepresent by understating its virtues...(signed) Dan.' Clamshell box is mildly scuffed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eureka Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 269490
- Title
- Lovers and Tyrants (corrected typescript photocopy)
- Author
- Gray, Francine du Plessix
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster, Inc
- Date Published
- 1976
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About the Seller
Eureka Books
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Eureka, California
About Eureka Books
Eureka Books, established in 1987, is a classic antiquarian shop with books in all subjects and price ranges. We're open Monday - Saturday in Old Town Eureka, California.
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- Fine
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- Recto
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- Cloth
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- Clamshell Box
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- Trade Paperback
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- First Edition
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