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Up Above the World.
by BOWLES, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1966). First edition. Octavo (8.25" x 5.75"), 223 pages. Publisher's gilt lettered gray/ blue cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Margins lightly sunned, otherwise fine in very good dust jacket with moderate edge wear including shallow losses at the spine extremities, minor creasing, & a couple of short, closed tears.
The last of Bowles's four novels which he characterized in 1968 as his best "because it's the best written. After all, what one writes for is to write well, to use the language well, to make the words tell the most they can, in the smallest number ..."
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1794
- Title
- Up Above the World.
- Author
- BOWLES, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1966)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Paul Bowles, Fiction. Literature, Beat Generation, Ex Patriot
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Counterculture;
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
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- Fine
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Cloth
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