The Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

ISBN 10: 067941861X / ISBN 13: 9780679418610

Published by Pantheon Books, 1996

About this Item

Signed by the author on a book plate affixed to the front end paper. This is a stated "First Edition"; first printing, as indicated by the print number line on copyright page. Previous owner's signature in pen on front end paper, the only imperfection to an otherwise fine copy. Dust jacket in Fine condition and in protective mylar cover. See photos.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1552762677110

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067941861X
• ISBN 13: 9780679418610
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

From the author of The Deluxe Transitive Vampire comes this delightful collection of writings about food, drink, and the art of eating. Drawing on excerpts from more than 50 writers--Barthes, Balzac, Mandelstam, McPhee, Marquez, and Joyce among them--Gordon gives us a funny, surprising, and wonderfully macabre book.

From the Inside Flap

hor of The Deluxe Transitive Vampire comes this delightful collection of writings about food, drink, and the art of eating. Drawing on excerpts from more than 50 writers--Barthes, Balzac, Mandelstam, McPhee, Marquez, and Joyce among them--Gordon gives us a funny, surprising, and wonderfully macabre book.