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Bay of Souls.
by STONE, Robert
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,, 2003. First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author in the month of publication on the title page, "For Dink, with admiration and thanks and best wishes always, Robert Stone, Key West, April 2003". The rear panel of the dust jacket has the price sticker of Key West Island Books, Florida, where this copy was presumably first sold and signed. The recipient was Benjamin "Dink" Bruce, a cult figure in Key West, Florida. Dink's father Telly Otto Bruce ("Toby") originally moved to Key West at the behest of his Arkansas friend Ernest Hemingway in 1935, serving the author in a vague capacity of general fixer for some thirty years, and Dink later became a local cult figure in his own right: "Bruce seemed to cross paths with every celebrity who came through Key West. He didn't seek them out; they found him. In Key West, Dink Bruce was royalty" (McKeen, p. 90). Robert Stone lived in Key West until his death in 2015. "Unusual (for Stone) in its brevity, this is a highly concentrated work, probably the least violent yet most unnerving of his novels. And the philosophical conflict dramatized in it ends surprisingly, in a way that provokes new questions about what Stone is up to in his writing" (Rush). Octavo. Original blue quarter boards, spine lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. A fine copy, fresh and clean, in like dust jacket, unclipped, bright and sharp. William McKeen, Mile Marker Zero: The Moveable Feast of Key West, 2011; Norman Rush, "Possession", New York Times, 6 April 2003.
Synopsis
Bay of Souls is a novel by renowned author Robert Stone written in the year 2003. It falls in the thriller genre of novels.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 157885
- Title
- Bay of Souls.
- Author
- STONE, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,
- Date Published
- 2003
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Peter Harrington
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About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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