Giles Goat-Boy Or the Revised New Syllabus
by Barth, John
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, 1966, Garden City, First Ed., 1966. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo, hardcover, corners bumped, some fading to black cloth on cover else interior VG. no dj. 710 deckled pages. Gold endpapers. A very controversial book. The book is allegory, parody, didactic treatise, fable, religious codex, and the takingof it seriously entails the taking of it unseriously" Barth's first commercial success and something of a cult book.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9002
- Title
- Giles Goat-Boy Or the Revised New Syllabus
- Author
- Barth, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday, 1966, Garden City, First Ed.
- Date Published
- 1966
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
bookwitch
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Concord, California
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...