- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Wax Nostalgic, Toronto, ON, CanadaWax Nostalgic
AbeBooks seller since October 1, 2026
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 164.24
Quantity: 1 available
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Super rare New Directions first printing (thus) of The Unfortunates. It is a collection of 27 small booklets inside a box. Later printings showed a Canadian price of $36, while this one is $31, signifying a first print of this edition. Overall in great shape. Box shows a small ding or two here or there. Inside, the booklets are complete and wrapped in the original red band. The first booklet shows a hint of a crease (not a permanent crease like a dog ear, just a slight line impression.
Seller Inventory # ABE-1793631382732
- Title
- The Unfortunates
- Author
- Johnson, B.S.
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0811217434
- ISBN 13
- 9780811217439
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 13.72 centimeters width by 20.32 centimeters height by 3.05 centimeters depth
A legendary 1960s experiment in form, The Unfortunates is B. S. Johnson's famous "book in a box," in which the chapters are presented unbound, to be read in any order the reader chooses. A sportswriter, sent to a Midlands town on a weekly assignment, finds himself confronted by ghosts from the past when he disembarks at the train station. Memories of one of his best, most trusted friends, a tragically young victim of cancer, begin to flood through his mind as he attempts to go about the routine business of reporting a soccer match.
The Unfortunates is a book of passionate honesty and dark, courageous humor: a meditation on death and a celebration of friendship which also offers a remarkably frank self-portrait of its author.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Jonathan Coe is a journalist who writes for the Guardian and the London Review of Books. He is the author of a biography of Humphrey Bogart and three novels.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Wax Nostalgic
Toronto, ON, Canada
AbeBooks seller since October 1, 2026
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