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A Fool in the Forest. Signed Copy.
by [LGBTQ]. BURWELL, Basil
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, (1963) First edition, this copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink by the author, who adds a small sketch of a mouse, at the first blank page. 8vo, 430 pages. Publisher's light blue cloth lettered in plum on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Gunn/ Gay American Novels, 1870–1970: p 104
Upper margin & spine extremities sunned, edges lightly rubbed, text slightly toned & occasionally foxed, about Very Good in moderately rubbed dust jacket with short tears & small losses mostly at the top & bottom of the spine, Good or better.
Partially autobiographical, the novel centers around young Jeff Ramsey & his "unsentimental education" in "the gay, tawdry, amoral, sometimes brutal world of a seedy summer stock company" Author Burwell was himself an actor & director as well as the founder of The Belfast Maskers in Belfast, Maine.
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- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000458
- Title
- A Fool in the Forest. Signed Copy.
- Author
- [LGBTQ]. BURWELL, Basil
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1963)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Theater, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Basis Burwell, Bazz, Signed, Autograph, LGBTQ
- Bookseller catalogs
- Performing Arts; LGBT; Literature, Fiction, Poetry; Biography, Autobiography; Signed;
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- Foxed
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