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By the Late John Brockman (INSCRIBED to George Litwin)
by Brockman, John (author), George Litwin (inscribed to)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1969. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. VG in VG+ dw. 8vo, [vi]+346pp, black cloth stamped in silver, printed dustwrapper. Humorously INSCRIBED by the author to George Litwin (presumably the Harvard associate of Timothy Leary) on the first page. An unusual experimental work heavily informed by the 1960s. Unmarked (aside from the inscription), a bit of spotting to top edge and boards. Jacket is not price-clipped and has a bit of soil and some sunning to rear panel.
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- Bookseller
- Philip Smith, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GS008
- Title
- By the Late John Brockman (INSCRIBED to George Litwin)
- Author
- Brockman, John (author), George Litwin (inscribed to)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- New York: The Macmillan Company
- Date Published
- 1969
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- By the Late John Brockman inscribed signed George H Litwin counterculture Intermedia avant-garde literature hippie psychedelic Harvard Timothy Leary LSD Beatnik Lower East Side New York The Macmillan Company 1969 literary agent
- Bookseller catalogs
- 1960s : Books;
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Philip Smith, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Philip Smith, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Berkeley, California
About Philip Smith, Bookseller
We specialize in rare and unusual items in Metaphysics and Spirituality, Literature, Art, Cinema, Social Movements, Octavo Editions, and interdisciplinary areas.
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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