A Confederate General from Big Sur
by Brautigan, Richard
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Avon, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press / Evergreen, 1968. First edition thus. Paperback. Very Good. Trade paperbound book. 159 pp. An early novel by Brautigan. This is the first Evergreen trade paperbound edition published four years after the hardbound edition. A very good copy in bound wrappers with cover art by Larry Rivers.
Synopsis
A Confederate General From Big Sur is Richard Brautigan's first novel, published in 1964. The story takes place in 1957. A man named Lee Mellon believes he is a descendant of a Confederate general who was originally from Big Sur. This general is not in any books or records and there is so far no proof of his existence. Although Mellon meets a drifter from the Pacific Northwest who has also heard of this general.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Derringer Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18180
- Title
- A Confederate General from Big Sur
- Author
- Brautigan, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Publisher
- Grove Press / Evergreen
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature / First Editions;
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