The London Novels: City of Spades; Absolute Beginners; Mr Love and Justice
by MacInnes, Colin; introduction by Nat Hentoff
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. Trilogy of novels, none sharing characters, set in London in the late 1950s, describing the city's burgeoning youth culture, racial strife, vice, & policing. American music & culture critic Hentoff provides the introduction; Absolute Beginners was filmed in 1986, with David Bowie's title song finding more success than the movie. First American edition (stated first printing), hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, minor stains to page edges; jacket edgeworn with some foxing, badly faded spine, $7.50 price intact. Text clean; xii, 626 pages. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Large Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- w0093
- Title
- The London Novels: City of Spades; Absolute Beginners; Mr Love and Justice
- Author
- MacInnes, Colin; introduction by Nat Hentoff
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- Large Octavo
- Keywords
- Youth Culture, Mod Culture, London, Immigration, Race Riots, Race Relations, Outsiders, Police, Subculture, Vice, Prostitution
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Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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