63: Dream Palace. A Novella
PURDY, James
Published by Victor Gollancz, London, 1957
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First English edition. octavo, maroon boards in dust jacket. Victor Gollancz, Former owner's name and 1957 date on front pastedown, edges of text block foxed, dust jacket price clipped with a few short tears. octavo, maroon boards in dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 22102
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Title: 63: Dream Palace. A Novella
Publisher: Victor Gollancz, London
Publication Date: 1957
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First English edition.
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63: Dream Palace (a Novella and Nine Stories)
Published by
Victor Gollancz, Ltd., London, 1957
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Albert Books, Levittown, NY, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. First Edition. A near fine copy in burgundy cloth, stamped in gilt on spine, no dust jacket. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 005159
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63: DREAM PALACE: A NOVELLA AND NINE STORIES.
Published by
Victor Gollancz
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Hardcover
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request. Seller Inventory # mon0001434050
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63 Dream Palace. A Novella and Nine Stories.
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Patrik Andersson, Antikvariat., Lund, Sweden
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London; Victor Gollancz, 1957. First UK edition. [19x13 cm]. 192 pp. Publisher's cloth with printed dustjacket. Spine of the jacket a bit tanned, minor chipping at head of spine and two of the corners. The book is fine. This UK edition is a joint publication of Purdy's two first books; 63 Dream Palace and Don't Call Me by My Right Name, both of them originally published in New York in 1956. Seller Inventory # 14824
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63 Dream Palace. A Novella and Nine Stories.
Published by
Gollancz, 1957
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Hardcover
Seller: Bristol Books Bristol, Bristol, BRIST, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Small 8vo First Edition,in dw. Near Fine/Very Good. No inscriptions or annotations. Publisher's original burgundy cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine.Dust Jacket unlipped, tiny chip to rear panel. Purdy published two books in 1956 (both privately) "Don't Call me by my Real Name" a collection of stories, and "63: Dream Palace", a novella. This combines those two books. DJ in plastic covering, not taped to book. John Cooper Powys - "Janes Purdy is the best kind of original genius of our day". Seller Inventory # 005056
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63: DREAM PALACE a Novella and Nine Stories
Published by
Victor Gollancz, London, 1957
Used
Hardcover
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardcover; small 8vo; 192 pages. Red paper hardcovers with gilt lettering on spine. Rubbed edges. Sunned spine. Yellowed page-edges. The pages are clear and clean but yellowing. G/--. Book. Seller Inventory # 222101
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63: Dream Palace; a novella
Published by
William-Frederick Press, New York,, 1956
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Wrappers
First Edition
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
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Wrappers. First Edition. Very nice copy. With the author's autograph signature on the half-title page. Seller Inventory # 7797
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63: Dream Palace; eleven stories and a novella
Published by
Panther, 1961
ISBN 10: 0586033661
ISBN 13: 9780586033661
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Mass market paperback
First Edition
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Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Mass market paperback. Condition: Good. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. 159, [1] pages. Some page discoloration. Preface by Edith Sitwell. Signed on first page. Ink notation inside front cover may also be from author. James Otis Purdy (July 17, 1914 - March 13, 2009) was a controversial American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright who, since his debut in 1956, published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages and in 2013 his short stories were collected in The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy. He has been praised by writers as diverse as Edward Albee, James M. Cain, Lillian Hellman, Francis King, Marianne Moore, Dorothy Parker, Dame Edith Sitwell, Terry Southern, Gore Vidal (who described Purdy as "an authentic American genius"), Jonathan Franzen (who called him, in Farther Away, "one of the most undervalued and underread writers in America"), A.N. Wilson, and both Jane Bowles and Paul Bowles. Purdy was the recipient of the Morton Dauwen Zabel Fiction Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1993). In addition, he won two Guggenheim Fellowships (1958 and 1962), and grants from the Ford Foundation (1961), and Rockefeller Foundation. He worked as an interpreter and lectured in Europe with the United States Information Agency. From Publishers Weekly: This volume affords readers a new opportunity to evaluate this rare stylist. Purdy has an ear for the way people speak, and his disoriented voice is that of post-World War II America. His characters are emotional cripples--from the two narcissistic body builders focused only on their own forms (and the office co-worker who is obsessed with them) to a woman whose drunken confession of hatred of her spouse and herself provokes domestic violence. Friendship is depicted as ultimately manipulative and hollow; organized religion is a crutch for the walking wounded (an honest but control-oriented preacher in one piece tells his flock that they are hopeless). The showpiece of the collection is the title work, Purdy's striking novella, dealing with a writer's fascination with what he perceives to be a boy's wild freedom, and his discovery that the youth's life is even more circumscribed than his own. Seller Inventory # 72555
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63: Dream Palace; Eleven Stories and a Novella
Published by
Panther Books, London, 1956
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Softcover
First Edition
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
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First edition thus. 16mo. 159 pp. Inscribed to Jerry Frasier by Purdy. Pictorial wrappers, light toning, else good condition. (96158). Seller Inventory # 10823
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63: Dream Palace; A Novella
Published by
William-Frederick Press, New York, 1956
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
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First edition. 8vo. 69 pp. Lengthy inscription to Jerry Frasier by Purdy on title page. Softcover, illustrated wraps, very good condition in acetate dustwrapper. (75569). Seller Inventory # 10810
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63: Dream Palace. A Novella and Nine Stories
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1957, 1957
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
[Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 12/6 to front flap. Internally bright and clean with toning to margins and edges. Ownership inscription in black ink to flyleaf. Minimal bumping to spine extremities. Dust-jacket is toned to covers and spine. Tearing and fraying to jacket extremities. Still very good. An earlier Purdy anthology, the titular novella displaying his reverence for Chicago's Jazz scene and the Harlem Renaissance. Seller Inventory # 63600
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