Isbn: 9780395377024 - the floating island: a tale of washington (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. First Edition. 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: FINE. First printing. A satirical novel about government bureaucracy, involving a "treacherous journalist, a bumptiously brilliant grant seeker, representatives from the mysterious Temple of Ray, and the hapless organizers of a presidential campaign who interfere with the back stabbing and status-seeking antics at Washington's Division of Evaluation, Training, and Morale." Annie Dillard called this "wonderfully, howlingly funny. . a tour de force that sends up not only Washington politics but all contemporary culture." 286 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.…

Zustand: FINE. First printing. A satirical novel about government bureaucracy, involving a "treacherous journalist, a bumptiously brilliant grant seeker, representatives from the mysterious Temple of Ray, and the hapless organizers of a presidential campaign who interfere with the back stabbing and status-seeking antics at Washington's Division of Evaluation, Training, and Morale." Annie Dillard called this "wonderfully, howlingly funny. . a tour de force that sends up not only Washington politics but all contemporary culture." 286 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Jacket illustration by Nicholas Gaetano. Ink note on rear fly, textblock edges faintly foxed, spine ends and corners slightly rubbed, very good in a very good dust jacket with a small tear and wrinkling at foot and modest edgewear. From the dust jacket: "Here stands revealed the Great American Bureaucracy, the power, the glory, the sheer hilarity of life behind the scenes in the capital of the free world.".…