Life is a Lousy Drag
by Jim Schock
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good-
- Seller
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
San Francisco: Unicorn Publishing Co., 1959. First Printing, stated (November, 1958). Drawings by Trubee Campbell. Good-. Front and back covers foxed, lightly soiled, edge, corner, and spine wear, creasing at corners and along spine; upper corner of flyleaf missing, name penciled inside front cover, all pages age-toned with some minor soiling on flyleaves. Text block otherwise clean and free of ownership marks. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
A not-very-approving contemporary look at the San Francisco beatnik scene. "A quanity [sic] of miscellaneous thoughts and pictures bringing the beatniks into the sun and air for inspection."
A not-very-approving contemporary look at the San Francisco beatnik scene. "A quanity [sic] of miscellaneous thoughts and pictures bringing the beatniks into the sun and air for inspection."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Barbed Wire Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M0911
- Title
- Life is a Lousy Drag
- Author
- Jim Schock
- Illustrator
- Truebee Campbell
- Format/Binding
- Stapled pictorial wraps
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Unicorn Publishing
- Date Published
- 1958
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- San Francisco, History of San Francisco, California, CA, Beatniks
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; History; Social Science; Comics & Graphic Novels; Humor;
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Barbed Wire Books
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Longmont, Colorado
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.