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Knopf, 1989-03-11. First Ed. hardcover. Used: Good.
Geek Love by Dunn, Katherine - 1989
by Dunn, Katherine
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Geek Love
by Dunn, Katherine
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Knopf, New York, 1989 First edition. Dark blue paper and cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering (bright), 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches, 347 pp. Book fine (binding tight/square, pages clean and crisp, no marks). Dustcover near fine (ever so slight sunning, spine, barely noticeable). This is the famous dustcover with the 5-legged dog on the spine and the mutant fonts employed on the front panel. Great whambo. A beautiful copy. From Wikipedia: "The novel is the story of a traveling carnival run by Aloysius "Al" Binewski and his wife "Crystal" Lil. When the business begins to fail, the couple devise an idea to breed their own freak show, using various drugs and radioactive material to alter the genes of their children. The results are Arturo ("Arty"), a boy with flippers for hands and feet; Electra ("Elly") and Iphigenia ("Iphy"), Siamese Twins; Olympia ("Oly"), a hunchbacked albino dwarf; and Fortunato ("Chick"), the normal-looking baby of the family who has telekinetic powers. Oly tells the story of her family in the form of a novel written for her daughter Miranda. The novel takes place in two time periods: the first deals with the Binewski children's constant struggle against each other through life. They especially have to deal with the Machiavellian Arty as he develops his own cult: Arturism. In this cult, Arty persuades people to have their limbs amputated so that they can be like Arty, the cult leader, in their search for the principle he calls PIP ("Peace, Isolation, Purity"). Each member moves up in stages, losing increasingly significant chunks of their body, starting with their toes and fingers. As Arty battles his siblings to maintain control over his followers, competition between their respective freak shows slowly begins to take over their lives. The second story is set in the present and is centered on Oly's daughter, Miranda. Nineteen-year-old Miranda does not know Oly is her mother. She lives on a trust fund created by Oly before she gave up her daughter to be raised by nuns. This had been urged by her brother Arty, who was also Miranda's father (not through sexual intercourse, but by the telekinetic powers of Chick, who carried Arty's sperm directly to Oly's ovum). Oly lives in the same rooming house as Miranda so she can "spy" on her. Miranda has a special defect of her own, a small tail, which she flaunts at a local fetish strip club. There she meets Mary Lick, who tries to convince her to have the tail cut off. Lick is a wealthy woman who pays attractive women to get disfiguring operations, ostensibly so they may live up to their potential instead of becoming sex objects; it is implied, however, that Lick's real motivation is to punish them for being more attractive than she is. Oly plans to stop Lick in order to protect her daughter."(3214027). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine.
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- ISBN 10 0394569024
- ISBN 13 9780394569024
- Publisher Knopf, New York
- Date Published 1989
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Knopf, 1989-03-10. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 6x1x9. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Small discolorations on several pages. Price clipped dj shelf worn with small scratches, scuffs, creases, sunning & small tears in a mylar cover. PRIORITY SHIPPING PROVIDED IN THE USA FOR THE PRICE OF MEDIA MAIL SHIPPING.
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Geek Love, A Novel - Uncorrected Proof
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NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989 Book. Very Good -. Soft cover. Uncorrected Proof. Cover is lightly faded and has minor wear/marks; previous owner's name on top of front cover. A novel which provides "the kind of shock, excitement, emotion, and pleasure that Frankenstein provided when it first appeared. . .".
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Geek Love
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Knopf, March 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition stated. Presents as Near Fine in like dustjacket, but has a p.o. signature on the front free endpaper.
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Knopf, 1989-03-11. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!
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Geek Love
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original quarter navy cloth and paper boards. First issue dust jacket is not price clipped.
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Geek Love.
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New York: Knopf.. Very Good+ in Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394569024 . First Edition. Close to near fine in fine dust jacket. (Traces of skinning to a top edge of boards. ) Author's celebrated breakthrough novel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 348 pages .
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Geek Love
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Knopf, 1989-03-11. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.5000 9.2000 6.4000. SIGNED by the author. Stated First Edition on the copyright page.
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Knopf, 1989-03-10. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 6x1x9. Signed by Author. First printing flat-signed by Dunn on the title page. Slightly canted binding shows minor wear and a bit of soiling. Binding is somewhat weakened due to overhandling but still solid. Some very light wear and soiling to top and bottom edges of text block. A tiny indentation along top edge of first two endpapers. Text is unmarked. The dust jacket shows light shelf rubbing, sunning to spine and front panel, a touch of edge wear, in a mylar cover.
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Geek Love.
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New York: KNOPF. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394569024 . First edition. SIGNED by Katherine Dunn on title page. Fine in very close to fine dust jacket. (348pp. ) (6 1/2" X 9 1/4") (Slim degree of sunning at uppermost edge of front cover of jacket. ) Superb copy of this cult classic. ; 6 1/2" x 9 1/2"; 348 pages .
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