The Short Reign of Pippin IV: a Fabrication
by Steinbeck, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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North Tonawanda, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Yellow and vermilion cloth covered boards with faint waterstain along spine. Sharp spine ends and corners. Jacket in archival protector has matching waterstain to spine panel and a bit also along fold of rear flap; minor rubbing and soil; spine sunned but easily legible; flaps not clipped. Binding sound (aside from being cracked at second blank) , text unmarked. Interior unaffected by water. No ownership marks, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. ; 8vo, yellow cloth spine with red lettering, dull red (almost brown) boards, top edge pages tinted red, DJ, 188pp. Includes b&w drawings by William Pene du Bois. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 188 pages .
Synopsis
In his only work of political satire, The Short Reign of Pippin IV , John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as amateur astronomer Pippin Héristal is drafted to rule the unruly French. Steinbeck creates around the infamous Pippin the most hilarious royal court ever: Pippin’s wife, Queen Marie, who “might have taken her place at the bar of a very good restaurant”; his uncle, a man of dubious virtue; his glamour-struck daughter and her beau, the son of the so-called “egg king” of Petaluma, California; and a motley crew of courtiers and politicians, guards and gardeners. This edition includes an introduction by Robert Morsberger and Katharine Morsberger.
Reviews
On Dec 27 2011, Okfine said:
One of the greatest novelist of our time. He really knows how to describe our tainted lives.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Editions Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2582
- Title
- The Short Reign of Pippin IV: a Fabrication
- Author
- Steinbeck, John
- Illustrator
- William Pene Du Bois
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- GENERAL, FICTION, FIRST, EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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