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THE DISAPPOINTMENT ARTIST
by Lethem, Jonathan
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385512171
- ISBN 13
- 9780385512176
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Doubleday, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. In a volume he describes as "a series of covert and not-so-covert autobiographical pieces," Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession - in his case, with examples as diverse as Western films, comic books, the music of Talking Heads and Pink Floyd, and the New York City subway. Along the way, he shows how each of these "voyages out from himself" have led him home - home to his father's life as a painter, and to the source of his beginnings as a writer. TTHE DISAPPOINTMENT ARTIST is a series of windows onto the collisions of art, landscape, and personal history that formed Lethem's imaginative, honest perspective on life as a human creature in the jungle of culture at the end of the twentieth century. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] NF40
Synopsis
Jonathan Lethem is the author of six novels, including The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn , which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of two short story collections, Men and Cartoons and The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye , and the editor of The Vintage Book of Amnesia . His essays have appeared in The New Yorker , Rolling Stone , Granta , and Harper’s . He lives in Brooklyn and Maine. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Seller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- ABE-4877160331
- Title
- THE DISAPPOINTMENT ARTIST
- Author
- Lethem, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385512171
- ISBN 13
- 9780385512176
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York, N. Y., U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2005
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed/Inscribed Books;
- Product_type
- 2
Terms of Sale
Joe Staats, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Joe Staats, Bookseller
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Los Angeles, California
About Joe Staats, Bookseller
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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