A Confederate General from Big Sur
by Brautigan, Richard
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very acceptable copy - first issue with price of 3.95 at the front flap and no printing statement at colophon. Blue cloth with white titles at the backstrip, lower corners bumped, rubbing and slight grubbiness to top corners. Spine tips creased - crushed at crown. Minor marks to covers. Off-setting to both pastedowns. Binding firm and square, the block has toned with age. The dustjacket is unclipped with small wear to the spine tips, tiny nick to the crown. The protected jacket is also tanned. Much better than it probably sounds but not a Fine copy, obviously. Still VG, however, and the dustwrapper Near Fine.
Synopsis
A Confederate General From Big Sur is Richard Brautigan's first novel, published in 1964. The story takes place in 1957. A man named Lee Mellon believes he is a descendant of a Confederate general who was originally from Big Sur. This general is not in any books or records and there is so far no proof of his existence. Although Mellon meets a drifter from the Pacific Northwest who has also heard of this general.
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- Bookseller
- Northern Lights Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1901200706
- Title
- A Confederate General from Big Sur
- Author
- Brautigan, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- counter-culture, magic realism, postmodernism, american literature, trout fishing in america, black comedy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
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- Dustwrapper
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- Fine
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
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