Whence All But He Had Fled
by L.J. Davis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in a Very Good jacket.
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 1968. FIrst Edition. Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket. Gray boards backed with brown cloth, gilt lettering stamped to spine. 247 pp. Very Good in a Very Good jacket.. Jacket design by Abner Graboff. Debut novel from L.P. Davis about a young Boise transplant to the New York City of the late 60s, the previously-underknown author whose star has recently risen thanks to the critical attention of Jonathan Lethem and a reissue of his follow-up novel A Meaningful Life on New York Review of Books.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1650
- Title
- Whence All But He Had Fled
- Author
- L.J. Davis
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Abner Graboff
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket. Gray boards backed with brown cloth, gilt lettering stamped to spine. 247 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in a Very Good jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIrst Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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