Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery
by Brautigan, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Bindinfg very slightly cocked else fine in near fine(+) edge-sunned jacket in archival mylar. Jacket is not price-clipped. A ver
- ISBN 10
- 0671220659
- ISBN 13
- 9780671220655
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. First ed., first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Bindinfg very slightly cocked else fine in near fine(+) edge-sunned jacket in archival mylar. Jacket is not price-clipped. A very crisp copy.. Octavo in dark jacket illustrated in full color; 167 pages; 21 cm. "The novel takes place in an apartment house on Chestnut Street in San Francisco. The principals are Constance and Bob, the couple upstairs who read the Greek Anthology and play the Story of O game, a strange mixture of offbeat sexual fantasies; Pat and John, the couple downstairs who eat turkey sandwiches naked and watch Johnny Carson; the three Logan brothers, whose bowling trophies have been stolen; and Willard, a three-foot-high papier-mâché bird. The Logan brothers have vowed to recover their bowling trophies at any cost and seek vengeance on those who stole them."--Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 101524
- Title
- Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery
- Author
- Brautigan, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Bindinfg very slightly cocked else fine in near fine(+) edge-sunned jacket in archival mylar. Jacket is not price-clipped. A ver
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First ed., first printing (full number line)
- ISBN 10
- 0671220659
- ISBN 13
- 9780671220655
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Revenge -- Fiction
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- Novels;
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