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The Sweetmeat Saga: The Epic Story of the Sixties
by G.F. Stevenson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends gently chipped, edges worn with creases, else light soiling
- ISBN 10
- 0876900333
- ISBN 13
- 9780876900338
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1971. First edition. Hardcover, [quarto], green cloth boards, white spine titles, brown endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, 241 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends gently chipped, edges worn with creases, else light soiling. Cover photo by Marc Miller; jacket design by Victoria Dudley. Work of experimental fiction in manuscript typography. The tale of the 'first post-war babies,' twins, Pookie and Paul Sweetmeat, born on V-E Day. The book tells the story of their last concert held at Big Sur in 1966. The non-linear narrative is written in a collage and cinematic style, splicing together wire taps, commercials, concert announcements with baby boom generation feedback on the cusp of the summer of love.
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- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1906
- Title
- The Sweetmeat Saga
- Author
- G.F. Stevenson
- Illustrator
- Cover photo by Marc Miller; jacket design by Victoria Dudley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, [quarto], green cloth boards, white spine titles, brown endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, 241 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends gently chipped, edges worn with creases, else light soiling
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0876900333
- ISBN 13
- 9780876900338
- Publisher
- Outerbridge & Dienstfrey
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Sweetmeat Saga, G.F. Gravenson
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