Fear Of Flying
by Jong, Erica
Erica Jong is the author of nineteen books of poetry, fiction, and memoir, including Fear of Flying, which has more than 18 million copies in print worldwide. Her most recent essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, and she is a frequent guest on television talk shows. Currently working on a novel featuring Isadora Wing—the heroine of Fear of Flying—as a woman of a certain age, Erica and her lawyer husband live in New York City and Connecticut. Her daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, is also an author.
Erica Jong left a Ph.D. program at Columbia to write her ground-breaking novel Fear of Flying, published in 1973. Jong is the author of numerous award-winning books of poetry and novels including Fanny, How to Save Your Own Life, Parachutes and Kisses, Any Woman’s Blues, and the forthcoming Sappho’s Leap. She is also the author of the memoir Fear of Fifty. She lives in New York City and Connecticut.
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Fear of Flying.
by JONG, Erica.
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Fear of Flying
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1973. Jacket is lightly scuffed with edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. . Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 340pp.; HB lt.blue w/red; spine&edges sunned w/lt.stain; ink,ft.endpaper; clean,tight pgs. DJ white w/blue&red-color pic.cover; some rub w/spine&edges sunned. " ...the story of Isadora Wing, one of the most hilarious and touching anti-heroines to… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. Cloth faded at edges and with light wear at extremities; jacket toned and with some light chipping at edges. 8vo. [12], 340 pages. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy, with a lengthy inscription by Jong across the span of the title: "June '74 / For RIch /… Read more about this item Item Price
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Secker & Warburg, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. jacket is a bit chipped. minor scarring under rear cover. foxing and some markings. ex-library copy with stamps. text remains clear, legible and intact. fairly good copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Item Price
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Fear of Flying: A Novel
by Jong, Erica
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- 1974
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. First Paperback . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Classic work celebrating women's sexual freedom, scandalous when it first came out in hardcover in1973. This is the First mass market paperback edition from 1974 (but a 32nd printing), with the infamous zipper revealed the nude body--NOT the bland new… Read more about this item Item Price
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Fear of Flying; A Novel
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1973 Holt Rinehart Winston STATED TRUE FIRST EDITION of Jong's classic novel. A terrific copy in VG/G+ condition. It has a **SIGNED** card laid in. The HB has very minor wear. The DJ is not price clipped and has… Read more about this item Item Price
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Fear of Flying
by Jong, Erica
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New York, New York, USA
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New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973. First edition. 340 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Grey cloth. Fine, small stain back inside cover in almost fine dj. First edition. 340 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed. With a fine early inscription-"for Jerry (Mayro, NYC bookshop owner), with love & nostalgia for the good old days-Erica April, 1974.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Fear of Flying
by Jong, Erica
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Fear of Flying
by Jong, Erica
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- 1974
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London, United Kingdom: Secker & Warburg, 1974. Blue bds with crisp gilt title (fresh not worn) pp 340 tight and clean (name stamped to ffep) Original wapper is bright and fresh (not scuffed, is price clipped and has faint foxed edge to front flap) An exceptionally good copy. Overweight. First British. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item Item Price
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FEAR OF FLYING : 40th Anniversary Edition : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Erica Jong; (Theresa Rebeck, Foreword)
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New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2013. First Edition, First Printing . Paperback. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. 40th Anniversay Edition, 1st Printing. Fear of Flying, first published 1973, is the first novel from New Yorker Erica Jong (1942) - ); novelist, satirist & poet, who, while a student at Barnard College, edited the Barnard Literary Magazine and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Fear of Flying
by Jong, Erica
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- 1973
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NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated First Edition in original dust jacket. Light blue cloth boards with red lettering on spine. The author's notorious first novel. "An absorbing, passionate novel exploring totally new territory: the story of a highly sexual intellectual woman, a writer, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Fear of Flying
by Jong, Erica
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0030107318 . Jong's first and most famous novel. Page edges a bit soiled. Extreme edges of book faded from sunning. Binding no longer tight, but no pages missing or in danger of falling out. Edges of DJ tanned. No… Read more about this item Item Price
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Fear of Flying: A Novel Jong, Erica and Weiner, Jennifer
by Jong, Erica; Weiner, Jennifer [Introduction]
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Henry Holt and Co, 2013-10-08. Hardcover. Good. 1973 Holt Rinehart hard cover - stated First Edition - some wear to dust jacket (now in mylar cover) - staining to page edge - sun fade to edge of cover - otherwise binding strong contents clean - a nice collectible - enjoy Item Price
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Fear of Flying: A Novel Jong, Erica and Weiner, Jennifer
by Jong, Erica; Weiner, Jennifer [Introduction]
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Henry Holt and Co, 2013-10-08. Hardcover. Very Good. 1973 Holt Rinehart hard cover - stated first edition - 1st printing - minor staining to page edge - minor sun fade to edge fo cover - otherwise dust jacket fine binding strong contents clean - a fine copy in mylar cover - enjoy Item Price
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Fear of Flying
by Erica Jong
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- November 1, 1974
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FAIR Pages square and tight. Spine tight, some creasing, minor shelf wear top and bottom. Covers intact, pen marks on top of front cover- might be the letters "R" and "N", else no marks. Item Price
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Fear of Flying
by Erica Jong
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- 1994
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Wellington, NZL
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United Kingdom: Vintage Publishing. Good. 13 x 19.8 x 2.3 centimetres (0.1. Paperback. 1994. 352 pages. Cover worn<br>Erica Jong is a poet, novelist and essay ist whose works have been influential all over the world. Her fir st novel Fear of Flying has sold over 27 million copies from the US and Europe to China. Fear of Flying has… Read more about this item Item Price
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