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The Neon Bible
by Toole, John Kennedy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed, remainder mark on page tops.
- ISBN 10
- 0802111084
- ISBN 13
- 9780802111081
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Grove Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed, remainder mark . on page tops.. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0802111084 . xi, 162pp. Introduction by W. Kenneth Holditch. Author photo on rear jacket flap. Toole's posthumously-published Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, was preceded by the writing of this novel when the author was only sixteen years old. After the author's suicide, his momma stalked poor Walker Percy with a manuscript of A Confederacy of Dunces, until the poor guy read it and found a publisher. Afterwards, legal wrangling among the Tooles held up the publication of this novel. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .
Synopsis
John Kennedy Toole wrote The Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen, but it was not published until 1989, thirty-five years after it was written and twenty years after Toole's suicide. The Neon Bible tells the story of David, who is a young boy growing up in a small Southern town in the 1940s.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45832
- Title
- The Neon Bible
- Author
- Toole, John Kennedy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed, remainder mark on page tops.
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0802111084
- ISBN 13
- 9780802111081
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- 0802111084, FICTION, RELIGIOUS, SOUTHERN, STATES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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