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Synopsis
Fine cloth copy in a near fine, edge-worn dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 219 pages; Description: 219 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: The bottle factory outing - Beryl Baindridge.
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"'an outrageously funny and horrifying story' Graham Greene (Observer) 'After turning the final page of The Bottle Factory Outing, one can only gasp, and grope for the right word...Such an atmosphere of impending doom has not been created since Brighton Rock - except that Beryl Bainbridge is mercilessly comic instead of being mercilessly vicious. Specialising in successive denouements, and with her gift for collecting the most amazing detail, she is so in control of her marvellous little story that one hangs on her words from first to last. What originality, what pleasure.' Ronald Blythe (Sunday Times)"
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* This wonderful novel showing Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best - out for the first time as an Abacus paperback
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The Bottle Factory Outing
Published by
George Braziller (1975)., 1975
ISBN 10: 0807607819
ISBN 13: 9780807607817
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Paperback
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0807607819I3N00
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The Bottle Factory Outing
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Braziller Incorporated, George, 1975
ISBN 10: 0807607819
ISBN 13: 9780807607817
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Softcover
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 5106800-6
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The Bottle Factory Outing
Published by
George Braziller, New York, 1975
ISBN 10: 0807607819
ISBN 13: 9780807607817
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Two women working at a bottle factory plan a day in the country with the men who work with them, 219 pages. One of Bainbridge's best, short listed for the Man Booker Prize. Gently bumped with a remainder swipe to the lower edge of the text block. Jacket lightly rubbed with a touch of edgewear and a sticker scuff to the front. Lower corner of the front flap creased, in Brodart. Seller Inventory # 230321
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The Bottle Factory Outing
Published by
George Braziller (1975)., 1975
ISBN 10: 0807607819
ISBN 13: 9780807607817
Used
Softcover
Seller: Solr Books, Lincolnwood, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: good. This book is in Good condition. There may be some notes and highligting but otherwise the book is in overall good condition. Seller Inventory # BCV.0807607819.G
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The Bottle Factory Outing
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Publisher: George Braziller, NY, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE- dust-jacket. Price-clipped. Not remainder marked. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves. Seller Inventory # SKU1025241
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The Bottle Factory Outing
Published by
George Braziller, 1975
ISBN 10: 0807607819
ISBN 13: 9780807607817
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: ArchBooks Inc, Springtown, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine dust jacket illustrated with bottles, pink and white lettering, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Near Fine binding is dark blue cloth over boards, silver lettering on spine. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.4" tall x 5.8" wide. About the book (from the dust jacket) In this extremely funny new novel, two Englishwomen working at a bottle factory in London with a troop of Italian immigrants become embroiled in a series of antic circumstances and farcical misadventures which the author has masterfully orchestrated into an intelligent and perceptive black comedy. Freda, big, blonde and eager for a romantic interlude with Vittorio, one of the younger and more handsome Italians working at the factory, befriends Brenda, who (among other scruffy habits) wears newspapers between her inner and outer clothing to keep warm, and can't seem to say "no". It is Freda who decides that the workers in the factory (all men with the exception of Freda, Brenda, and an older Italian woman, Maria) should spend a day together in the country one Sunday. Plans are accordingly made for a picnic in the park, a visit to a Stately Home, and a good time to be had by all. From the moment when the hired van doesn't turn up at the factory to carry everyone into the country, the outing seems ill-omened. Such an atmosphere of impending doom brought about by pursuits in public places has seldom been created, nor a comparable series of successive denouements, as Beryl Bainbridge weaves her tale with such a genius for the mercilessly comic detail (as evidenced in her previous books, Harriet Said and The Secret Glass), that one hangs on her words from first to last. Finally, as events rush toward a grotesque climax, the haunting image of the world of the bottle factory workers-a microcosm of the modern urban reality-begins to pervade the reader's mind like a macabre dream that cannot be exorcised. About the author (from the dust jacket) BERYL BAINBRIDGE, born "somewhere around the middle thirties,"` attended the Merchant Taylors School and Arts Educational Schools in England. She is the mother of three children, and was an actress for ten years, but has given up the stage in order to devote herself to writing and painting. Since 1966 she has had five books published and is presently at work on her sixth. Seller Inventory # 21032
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The Bottle Factory Outing
Published by
George Braziller, New York, 1975
ISBN 10: 0807607819
ISBN 13: 9780807607817
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 219pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket rear panel scuffed. First U.S. edition, tight and attractive. GRIER 6 (B). Seller Inventory # 9788
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The Bottle Factory Outing
Published by
George Braziller, 1975
ISBN 10: 0807607819
ISBN 13: 9780807607817
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Fine. 1st Ptg. (1st ptg.) Sturdy book, fine dark blue cloth, silver lettering very bright on spine, 219 lightly browned stiff pages. DJ glossy black, color-illustration of faces in bottles on front, b/w photo of Bainbridge on back. DJ has very light crease at top back spine identation. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book. Seller Inventory # 41458
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The Bottle Factory Outing
Published by
George Braziller, 1975
ISBN 10: 0807607819
ISBN 13: 9780807607817
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Tony Lamy Bookseller, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. First Edition. 1st US edition. 1st printing. F/NF. Seller Inventory # 29830
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THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING
Published by
George Braziller, New York, 1975
ISBN 10: 0807607819
ISBN 13: 9780807607817
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. 1 inch plus open tear with fold to top front panel, thumb sized creased nick to bottom front panel else VG. Stated First Printing.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Seller Inventory # 38465