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Incident At Vichy
by Miller, Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, (1965). First Edition. First Printing Near fine in 1/2 blue cloth and printed paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a blind embossed "M" on the front board. A small octavo of 8 by 5 3/8 inches with slight fading to the cloth at the ends of the spine area. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the fly title. 71 pages of script.
Synopsis
In Vichy France in 1942, eight men and a boy are seized by the collaborationist authorities and made to wait in a building that may be a police station. Some of them are Jews. All of them have something to hide—if not from the Nazis, then from their fellow detainees and, inevitably, from themselves. For in this claustrophobic antechamber to the death camps, everyone is guilty. And perhaps none more so than those who can walk away alive. In Incident at Vichy , Arthur Miller re-creates Dante's hell inside the gaping pit that is our history and populates it with sinners whose crimes are all the more fearful because they are so recognizable. "One of the most important plays of our time . . . Incident at Vichy returns the theater to greatness." — The New York Times
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32403
- Title
- Incident At Vichy
- Author
- Miller, Arthur
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1965)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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