Jurgen - a comedy of justice
by Cabell, James Branch
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good unmarked except owner name inside, sunned spine, light wear to extremities.
- Seller
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
5-1/2 x 8, 368 pp.
Synopsis
"Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice," an entry in the Poictesme series, is an epic fantasy voyage as well as an erotic fable. Cabell himself wrote: "This fable is, as the world itself, a book wherein each man will find what his nature enables him to see; which gives us back each his own image; and which teaches us each the lesson that each of us desires to learn." Jurgen was banned for decades because of its explicit content. It was, and remains, a groundbreaking early fantasy novel and a worthy addition to the Wildside Fantasy Classics line.
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- Bookseller
- edburynbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35224
- Title
- Jurgen - a comedy of justice
- Author
- Cabell, James Branch
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in green cloth illus boards, no jacket.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good unmarked except owner name inside, sunned spine, light wear to extremities.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 20th printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- Sept 1927
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