VACATION
by Alan Sheridan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Jacket is in transparent protective sleeve. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD price-clipped dust jacket
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Blake Editions, London - first edition 1972 Hardcover, 8¾" x 5½", with dust jacket Jacket is in transparent protective sleeve. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD price-clipped dust jacket In this, his first novel, Sheridan takes the reader on a fascinating eight-day holiday around the world, with extended visits to China (in 1840s) and Japan (1970s). Meanwhile, from his Earl's Court room, he invesitigates a London cemetery, visits the Chamber of Horrors, attends a lecture on Egyptian burial ceremonies, and interviews an undertaker, and keeps a scrapbook of the bizarre (an appendix to this book). The author is regarded as the finest living translator of French Literature.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31297
- Title
- VACATION
- Author
- Alan Sheridan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 8¾" x 5½", with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Jacket is in transparent protective sleeve. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD price-clipped dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blake Editions, London - first edition
- Date Published
- 1972
- Pages
- 240 pages
- Keywords
- Fiction Fiction: Collectible Pbks Visionary Fiction
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pegasus Book Orphanage
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McCrae, Victoria
About Pegasus Book Orphanage
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