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THE RESURRECTION
by Gardner, John
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good plus in very good jacket.
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About This Item
(New York): The New American Library, 1966. First edition. Very good plus in very good jacket.. First printing, in which a dying philosopher travels from San Francisco to Batavia, New York (Gardner's own hometown) for his last days, to do as much thinking as possible before terminal illness, childhood memories, and Upstate gloom join forces to drag him to his end. Gardner's first novel, with an approach and a set of preoccupations that would recur throughout Gardner's writing career. As the author would say some years later: "I'm not sure that being a philosophical novelist is better than being some other kind, but I guess that there's not much doubt that, in a way at least, that's what I am. A writer's material is what he cares about, and I like philosophy the way some people like politics, or football games, or unidentified flying objects." 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original half black cloth with brown paper boards, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($4.95) dust jacket, designed by Ken Braren. Tan endpapers. [10], 244 pages. Mild wear to boards at extremities. Tiny chipping to spine ends, faint soil and creasing to jacket panels. Tape reinforcement to jacket verso at heel of spine. Occasional foxing to pages.
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- Type Punch Matrix
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39861
- Title
- THE RESURRECTION
- Author
- Gardner, John
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus in very good jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The New American Library
- Place of Publication
- (New York)
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- 20th century,1960s
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Verso
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- New
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- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Cloth
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