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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration. Seller Inventory # GOR010984867
Book Description Hardback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR003515350
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Marquis de Sade Meets Goody Two-shoes This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Seller Inventory # 7719-9781857934663
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Seller Inventory # 6545-9781857934663
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition / 1st Printing (Pavilion - 1994). VERY GOOD - no dust jacket as issued. Binding is tight and square. No marks in text. . . . . The theme of this collection, that of crossing a few unlikely paths, first emerged a year or two back, while I was re-dipping into the murky life of Edgar Allan Poe and re-encountering, that same afternoon, some of the worst of E. Hemingway's macho prose. Suddenly I had this distressing vision of Hemingway blasting the brains out of Poe's quothing raven, so that nevermore would the gloomy bird go on about doom, fate and the shocking price of bird seed in New York. From then on it was only a short trot to other fanciful encounters. Donation Alphonse Francois, Marquis de Sade, for example. His sheer bad luck in crossing the path of the unspeakable Goody Two-Shoes, who was capable of crushing the spirit of men more monstrous and certainly less readable than he, was startling, to say the least of it. Is it not likely that one such numbing encounter - with or without skipping-rope - resulted in his incarceration and, finally, death in the lunatic asylum at Charenton? Such unlikely pairing opened up a world of nightmarish possibilities. Take old Omar Khayyam's brief encounter while he was lolling about with a loaf, a jug of wine and his girlfriend Thou, under a desert palm. If only he had enrolled in the Charles Atlas Biceps Course before T. E. Lawrence kicked sand in his face, the Rubaiyat might have been less soppy. Crossed paths, like crossed legs, can conceal an awful lot of surprises. Had impetuous Caesar, for example, listened more carefully, would he still have chopped de Gaulle into three parts? Well, maybe . . . From Searles Introduction. Seller Inventory # 2310030013
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Ed. First British ed. Fine condition, without dustjacket, as issued. Book. Seller Inventory # 034400
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by the author. First British printing. Near fine in oblong glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Seller Inventory # 92979
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1994 1st edition, Pavilion Books, oblong 4to, unpaginated, many black & white illustrations, very good, laminated boards. Seller Inventory # ARB-15236
Book Description Condition: Very Good. First Edition, first impression, with printing sequence line '24681097531'. Publisher's illustrated, glossy paper-covered boards. Quarto. pp. [54] not paginated, with 47 full-page cartoons. Illustrations by Ronald Searle. A book in Very Good condition with spotting to endpapers, edge crease to front board and pushing at tail of spine. Seller Inventory # 102235
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Excellent collectable, looks unread. Issued as a landscape hardback with a gloss laminated cover, and no jacket. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Seller Inventory # ABE-7913310593