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Skinny Legs and All
by Robbins, Tom
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0553057758
- ISBN 13
- 9780553057751
- Seller
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Boise, Idaho, United States
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About This Item
NY: Bantam, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Handsome copy, unmarked hardcover with jacket, hint of smudge fore edge (hard to see) and 1" tear jacket back panel But for this I'd probably have graded near fine/near fine. Book quite newish, jacket will ship in new mylar wrapper. Full number line. For what it's worth, we agree with Ahearn that later printings (partial number lines) of the first edition generally do not meet the requirements to be listed as 1sts. . . *We feel that books offered for internet sale should be described thoroughly and accurately. Books listed by Brass Dolphin are so described, and graded, using the strict, traditional standards. For this reason, we have virtually zero returns.*
Synopsis
SKINNY LEGS AND ALL:An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations....It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine--while the illusions that obscure humanity's view of the true universe fall away, one by one, like Salome's veils.Skinny Legs and All deals with today's most sensitive issues: race, politics, marriage, art, religion, money, and lust. It weaves lyrically through what some call the "end days" of our planet. Refusing to avert its gaze from the horrors of the apocalypse, it also refuses to let the alleged end of the world spoil its mood. And its mood is defiantly upbeat.In the gloriously inventive Tom Robbins style, here are characters, phrases, stories, and ideas that dance together on the page, wild and sexy, like Salome herself. Or was it Jezebel?From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Brass DolphinBooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008344
- Title
- Skinny Legs and All
- Author
- Robbins, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0553057758
- ISBN 13
- 9780553057751
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1990
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
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Boise, Idaho
About Brass DolphinBooks
Internet sales. 25 years experience, using only the strict, traditional definition of the term, "First edition" and grading conservatively to ABAA standards. We do not do 3rd party drop shipping.
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