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The Dark
by John McGahern
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Stated First American Edition. Octavo. 191 pages. Printed dust jacket with original $3.95 price present. Brown and red boards stamped in gilt. Red topstain.
Dust jacket shows general rubbing with heavier wear along edges, particularly at flaps with two small punctures to rear flap. A bit of staining and light foxing to jacket verso. Boards lightly rubbed at extremities and spine ends slightly nudged. Binding is sound. One small, faint stain to top of text block but pages otherwise unmarked. Overall a very good copy in a very good dust jacket of the author's second book.
Dust jacket shows general rubbing with heavier wear along edges, particularly at flaps with two small punctures to rear flap. A bit of staining and light foxing to jacket verso. Boards lightly rubbed at extremities and spine ends slightly nudged. Binding is sound. One small, faint stain to top of text block but pages otherwise unmarked. Overall a very good copy in a very good dust jacket of the author's second book.
Synopsis
The Dark, John McGaherns second novel, is set in rural Ireland. The themes that McGahern has made his own are adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both a puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower father.Against a background evoked with quiet, undemonstrative mastery, McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a human situation, superficially very ordinary, but inwardly an agony of longing and despair.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8494
- Title
- The Dark
- Author
- John McGahern
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
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