William Heinemann, 1983, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, First
VI, 210 pages, last five pages blank, intentionally. Black coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping to the backstrip edges and corners and rubbing to the book edges. Browning and foxing to the text block edges and age toning of the internal text. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with black background with white and multicoloured titles to the front panel and white and blue titles to the backstrip. Creasing to the dustwrapper edges and rubbing to the dustwrapper panels and edges. In this book the author ".. has ravished every soap-opera cliche, scourged every stereotype of best-selling pulp in a savage, brilliant, wildly comic burlesque of modern-day America -- its cruelty, it's madness and its dreams." -- from the front fold over panel blurb This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; America; Inventory No: 0110239.
VI, 210 pages, last five pages blank, intentionally. Black coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping to the backstrip edges and corners and rubbing to the book edges. Browning and foxing to the text block edges and age toning of the internal text. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with black background with white and multicoloured titles to the front panel and white and blue titles to the backstrip. Creasing to the dustwrapper edges and rubbing to the dustwrapper panels and edges. In this book the author ".. has ravished every soap-opera cliche, scourged every stereotype of best-selling pulp in a savage, brilliant, wildly comic burlesque of modern-day America -- its cruelty, it's madness and its dreams." -- from the front fold over panel blurb This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; America; Inventory No: 0110239.