The Break-up of Our Camp
by Goodman, Paul
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Norfolk, Connecticut: Direction 14 (New Directions), 1949. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Norfolk, Connecticut: Direction 14 (New Directions), 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Very clean gray cloth boards with crisp black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 160 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, has very slight rubbing, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Thirteen short stories, each in its different way a pin or pins stuck into our too complacent sensibility. In the seemingly pedestrian events of the closing of a boys' camp forthe season, Mr. Goodman, our most subtle ironist, finds fascinating grist for his fine-granding psychological mill..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029002
- Title
- The Break-up of Our Camp
- Author
- Goodman, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Direction 14 (New Directions)
- Place of Publication
- Norfolk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- SHORT STORIES, LITERATURE, PAUL GOODMAN, FIRST EDITION, ANTHOLOGY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories/Anthologies;
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