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Memos From Purgatory
by Ellison, Harlan
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- minor wear to the extremities and modest paper slightly tanned as usual else a nearly fine copy. [NB: spine reglued]
- Seller
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scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Regency Books RB 106 [50c], 1961. First edition, first printing. Mass market paperback. minor wear to the extremities and modest paper slightly tanned as usual else a nearly fine copy. [NB: spine reglued].
Synopsis
Hemingway said, "A man should never write what he doesn't know," In the mid-fifties, Harlan Ellison--kicked out of college and hungry to write--went to New York to start his writing career. It was a time of street gangs, rumbles, kids with switchblades and zip guns made from car radio antennas. Ellison was barely out of his teens himself, but he took a phony name, moved into Brooklyn's dangerous Red Hook section and managed to con his way into a "bopping club." What he experienced (and the time he spent in jail as a result) was the basis for the violent story that Alfred Hitchcock filmed as the first of his hour-long TV dramas...This autobiography is a book whose message you won't be able to ignore or forget.
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- Bookseller
- stephensbookstore
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 400835
- Title
- Memos From Purgatory
- Author
- Ellison, Harlan
- Format/Binding
- Mass market paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - minor wear to the extremities and modest paper slightly tanned as usual else a nearly fine copy. [NB: spine reglued]
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Regency Books RB 106 [50c]
- Date Published
- 1961
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