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Buddwing
by Evan Hunter born Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926-2005)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good to fine/Very good to fine
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
349 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with green label to spine in gold lettering in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The bestselling author has recreated a day in the life of an amnesiac. From his awakening on a Central Park bench at dawn until the same time the next morning, Buddwing discovers himself through New York City and an interrupted series of flashbacks that supply everything but his full identity. Buddwing (a name borrowed from a Budweiser beer truck and birds) is thirtyish and then some. He is also very good looking. Perhaps this accounts for the more incredible of his sexual encounters during the day. A disturbed and compulsively promiscuous post-adolescent takes him into her athletic bed. (All this and amnesia, too?) After a day and a night that carries him East side, West side, all around the Town up to and including a fabulous crap game in Harlem, Buddwing momentarily remembers who he is and what it is he's running from -- a suicided wife and her funeral -- and then mercifully forgets again. Mister Buddwing, directed by Delbert Mann and starring James Garner, is based upon the novel Buddwing by Evan Hunter. Condition: Gently bumped corner. Jacket light edge wear, spine end lightly chipped else very good to fine in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS001293
- Title
- Buddwing
- Author
- Evan Hunter born Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926-2005)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good to fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very good to fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- Size
- Octavo
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