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Adrift in Soho
by Wilson, Colin
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Germantown, New York, United States
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About This Item
Adrift in Soho by Colin Wilson
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1961. Hardcover, green cloth. First edition (stated), actually the first American edition. Boards and spine are straight, book is unmarked, and the binding is tight. Lacking the jacket. Wilson's second novel presents a vivid portrayal of beat generation characters in 1950s London.
Synopsis
Adrift In Soho is a novel by Colin Wilson. It was first published in England in 1961 by Victor Gollancz. The story opens in the late summer of 1955. Nineteen year old Harry Preston, having been granted an early discharge from national service with the RAF, moves to London from a small English provincial town. Fancying himself as a writer, he drifts towards the central district of Soho, where he meets an out of work actor, James Street.
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- Bookseller
- Camphor Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Biblio1014
- Title
- Adrift in Soho
- Author
- Wilson, Colin
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1961
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- London, bohemian, Colin Wilson, Soho, actors, beat generation, artsy, bars, out of print, memoirs, first editions, Tottenham, British Museum
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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