Search Results: giles goat boy or by barth john

Fawcett Crest, 1968. Softcover. Good. P1052, 3rd Fawcett Crest printing, foxing and musty smell

Granada Publishing, Limited. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Fawcet Crest, 1966. Softcover. Very Good. P1052, 5th printing

NY: Fawcett Crest. Good with no dust jacket. 1968. Paperback. Moderate wear .

UsedGood. **STOCK PHOTOS AND CATALOG INFO MAY VARY FROM ACTUAL BOOK, PLEASE REFER TO SELLER PHOTOS AND ITEM DESCRIPTION FOR MOST ACCURATE INFORMATION. THE SELLER PHOTO SHOWS THE EXACT COPY YOU WILL RECEIVE** This is a used book in GOOD condition. May have minor defects such as wearing to outside cover, a name written on inside cover, or a few notations throughout. Hardcover edition. No Dust Jacket

New York: Fawcett Crest Books, Aug 1967. 1st printing. MM paperback in glossy white illus wraps.. Good unmarked, cover creases & dings. . Gothic fun-house fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex. Clean tight reading copy. 766 pp.

London, UK: Granada: Panther Books. Very Good+. 1981. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Very Good+ to Near Fine in Wraps: shows several rather faint creases near the upper rear corner and an even fainter crease near the lower front corner; the expected light tanning to the text pages due to aging; a tiny, very faint stain at the outside edge of the front panel; the binding is somewhat concave, though it doesn't appear that the book has been read; else flawless; the binding is secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing minor, unobtrusive imperfections only. Bright and Clean. Close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7 x 4.35 X 2 inches) .… Read More

Doubleday, 1966, Garden City, First Ed., 1966. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo, hardcover, corners bumped, some fading to black cloth on cover else interior VG. no dj. 710 deckled pages. Gold endpapers. A very controversial book. The book is allegory, parody, didactic treatise, fable, religious codex, and the takingof it seriously entails the taking of it unseriously" Barth's first commercial success and something of a cult book.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 2 small black marks on red cover. 710pp. Page edges toned. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall

Clean interior. Pictures on request

Garden City, Ny: Doubleday. Good with no dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. Cover Soiled With Tear at Top and Bottom Spine Anf Front Top and Bottom Edge. .

Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Good in Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. Cover has lot of foxing and soiling, some also on right foredge; None. .

Doubleday & Co, 1966. Doubleday & Co., 1966, 8vo, 710 pages. Book and jacket in very good condition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Doublday , 1966. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Code H40 on last page. Early printing. Light rubbing to jacket. Price-clipped. .

New York, NY: Fawcett Crest , 1967. Fawcett First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW w/margin discoloration. Softcover/VG; sound w/edge wear, creasings to spine, soiling w/humidity staining. 4th novel of John Simmons Barth (1930 - ). Allegorical, comic rendering of the Cold War set on a college campus, a university, or, a university that is the universe. Tale of George Giles (sired by a computer w/a virgin) who, raised as goat, rises to be Grand Tutor of New Tammany College. Challenging, complex novel triggered by the Cold War. Volume preceded w/the "Publisher's Disclaimer" and "Cover-Letter to the Editors & Publisher" passing off authorship & editorial responsibilities to the computer WESCAC, and, ends w/a Postape, Postscript to the Postape & Footnote to the Postscript to the Postape, all further questioning the morality & veracity of the unorthodox, in poor taste to many, contents. 766 pgs in 2 volumes, each in 3 reels. Strong copy of… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Co, 1966. Black cloth. VG+/no dj. 8vo. 1st Edition, later state with H27 on pg 710

U.S.A: Doubleday & Company, 1966. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Doubleday & Company, 1966. Hardcover BCE in Good Condition with an Acceptable Jacket, with Mylar Protective Cover. The first-person chronicle of the life and teachings of George Giles, who left the goat farm to become Grand Tutor in the human university. Giles is a half-man, half-goat who discovers his humanity and becomes a savior in a story presented as a computer tape given to Barth, who denies it is his work. Binding of dark grey full cloth w/gilt titles. Clean, tight and solid volume. Edges and corners are rubbed, light scuffing of corners, lighter gray small spots near upper edge of front panel; shallow indentation on fore edge of front panel. Rough cut. Former owner name of endpaper. Pages very clean, completely free of any markings, no creases. Jacket is clean and ragged, triangular piece off facing of front cover--see photo. It has protected the book. 710 pages. 9.5 x 6.5… Read More

New York: Anchor Books, 1987. . Reprint. Paperback. A fine copy.

New York: Doubleday, 1966. Later Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. H40 on last text page. Mild remainder spray bottom edge. Nice copy.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966 Hardcover. Cloth; 8vo.,710pp. Code on last page of text H40. No names or other markings. Cited by Pete Boxall as one of the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" Fine in Near Fine, Price-clipped d/j in jacket protector. Seller inventory 122174 (F1)