Leave Me Alone
by Karp, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight clean copy, with just a touch of shelfwear; jacket shows minor wear at lower extremities, short diagonal crease at top right corner of front panel, a little wrinkling and a couple of tiny tears at top of rear panel]. In this novel, the author tackles the problems and pressures of suburban life. It concerns an editor for a "large and distinguished New York publishing house" who moves, for the sake of his children, to a bedroom community on Long Island, and although he "at first is glad to move from the 'upper Bohemian' East Fifties to a middle-class suburban community [he eventually] finds himself more estranged there than in New York." For some reason I can't quite fathom, the British edition of this book (published the same year by Gollancz) is much more common than the American. .
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- Bookseller
- ReadInk
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25840
- Title
- Leave Me Alone
- Author
- Karp, David
- Illustrator
- (dj design) Paul Rand
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- New York City, Publishing, Editors, Suburban Life, Fifties
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