A Triton Book, 1967, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, First
Blue coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Black-and-white photographic dustwrapper (wraparound), with white coloured background with blue-and-white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. " This is basically a West Side Story of sexual no-man's land; the pure tragedy of love colliding with anti-love, with all the emotions of compassion and tenderness from the upper half of a man's site smashed by fear, n.b. and hates -- all emotions from the human basement. The profound attraction is doomed, not by its inherent nature, but by a blind morality (read - intolerance) of the mass." -- from the front fold over blurb. Little bumping to the lower backstrip edge and to the book corners. Browning and foxing to the text block edges. Browning to the endpapers and to the internal text. Original bookseller's stamp to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. Rubbing and chipping to the dustwrapper corners and rubbing to the other dustwrapper edges. There is a small to corner tear to the lower edge of the rear dustwrapper panel and a small tear to the upper edge. Yellowing and handling marks of the white of the dustwrapper. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 9-224 pages.. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 0107882.
Blue coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Black-and-white photographic dustwrapper (wraparound), with white coloured background with blue-and-white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. " This is basically a West Side Story of sexual no-man's land; the pure tragedy of love colliding with anti-love, with all the emotions of compassion and tenderness from the upper half of a man's site smashed by fear, n.b. and hates -- all emotions from the human basement. The profound attraction is doomed, not by its inherent nature, but by a blind morality (read - intolerance) of the mass." -- from the front fold over blurb. Little bumping to the lower backstrip edge and to the book corners. Browning and foxing to the text block edges. Browning to the endpapers and to the internal text. Original bookseller's stamp to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. Rubbing and chipping to the dustwrapper corners and rubbing to the other dustwrapper edges. There is a small to corner tear to the lower edge of the rear dustwrapper panel and a small tear to the upper edge. Yellowing and handling marks of the white of the dustwrapper. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 9-224 pages.. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 0107882.