Isbn: 9780394525396 - the flower of the republic (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: VERY GOOD. First printing. An old man in a Vermont tavern recounts stories of his youth, and of the loves that have been lost to him. Good in good dust jacket ( some dampstaining and bleeding from the cloth spine at the bottom edge, not affecting the text or the exterior of the dj.).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. NY: Knopf, 1983. First Edition. First printing. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. A nice tight copy. Price intact on jacket flap ($11.95). One tiny closed tear to rear jacket cover. Rear fiction.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. An old man in a Vermont tavern recounts stories of his youth, and of the loves that have been lost to him. Dust jacket praise from Raymond Carver, Tom Wolfe and James Purdy. A concise novel at only 128 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Jacket design by James Laughlin. Small remainder stamp on bottom edge, thus near fine in a near fine dust jacket with faint tanning and mild edgewear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition ; 127 pp. ; 23 cm. ; ISBN: 0394525396; 9780394525396 LCCN: 82-47834 ; OCLC: 8627839 ; "Gray, rumpled, garrulous Prof. Homer Prudhomme, apparently wandering his native New England in search of longtime (long-unfaithful) wife Priscilla, w inds up in a bar. . . and is promptly picked up, more or less, by local exterminator . More Pansy Truax, a giantess who matches Homer's arch locutions with roughly eloquent pronouncements on bumhood: "There's your four types of bums. . . the boozehound bum, the mama's boy, the bookworm, and the pillhead." Very soon, however, Kennedy shifts the tone from boisterous, just-slightly-unreal comedy to a darker, more explicitly thematic brand of whimsy, with more than a soupcon of Joyce Carol O ates. The Homer/Pansy affair quickly becomes a caricature of traditional marriage--with the sex-roles graphically reversed. Homer then flees to become the third party to a similarly imbalanced relationship: the marriage of charismatic octogenarian M rs. French and her young, pretty, effeminate, pouting husband. Later he'll take a car-ride with yet another sexually-reversed pair: black live-sex-show performers Salamandra and Queen Albert. And, throughout, Homer reminisces about his own family's sexual waywardnesses: wonderfully sensual wife Priscilla, raped by her father, later his willing mistress, and ever unfaithful to Homer ('She hadn't even unlocked her trousseau yet, and here she was, balancing the porcine belly on her forehead, serv icing an empire!'); and his Aunt Daphne, who sinned with her brother-in-law, was de-faced by a swarm of bees, and came back years later as 'a fertility goddess.'"--Kirkus reports ; VG/VG. Book.…

Cloth Spine. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A handsome first edition/first printing in Near Fine, seemingly unread condition with traces of sunning to edges in Fine dust-jacket. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number on front paste down; The Flower of the Republic is a book written by Kennedy about the American Revolution. It is a very descriptive and detailed book about the war and the people who were involved. It is a very important book to read because it sheds light on the events that led to the American Revolution.; 8vo; FSA.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. A bit of spotting on topstain, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with light edgewear, and faint creases on the flaps. Signed by the author on the title page.