Pages from a Cold Island Tapa dura - 1975

Random House, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Pages unmarked. Dust jacket moderately worn. Binding square & firm..

Random House Inc (T), April 1975. Hardcover. Acceptable/No Jacket.

Random House. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. DJ shows some edgewear and tanning. ; 1.3 x 8.4 x 5.8 Inches; 274 pages

New York: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394494407 . DJ has light edge wear. .

New York: Random House, 1975. 274pp. Extremities lightly rubbed; foxing on edges & eps. Dj extremities rubbed & lightly soiled.. Hb. G+/G+.

NY: Random House, 1975. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing. There's a small red star stamp on the front pastedown (remainder mark), otherwise very good in a very good dustjacket with light edgewear. Not priceclipped and no othe markings. (box 165)

Random House, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York. 1975. April 1975. Random House. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394494407. 275 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by James Spanfeller. keywords: Literature America Drink. FROM THE PUBLISHER - PAGES FROM A COLD ISLAND begins with the death of Edmund Wilson. The news teaches Fred Exley even as he is rereading Wilson's Hecate County to determine its suitability for a writing class he is going to teach at Iowa. The effect of Wilson's death is overwhelming. Thus begins a personal odyssey, an obsessive journey that takes him from his own ‘roots' (his mother's home in Alexandria Bay on the St. Lawrence) to a small hot resort island off Florida and, finally, to the climax of the book at the Iowa Writers' Workshop-an obsessed and sometimes hilarious search, if you will, to find a way to write the very book you are reading. It is an utterly absorbing journey which moreover touches much of the crippled creative life in America. Raunchy, drunken, by turns… Leer más

Random House, 1975-04. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Random House, 1975. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, red cloth spine over pale yellow paper covered boards. 274 pp. plus biographical note on author. A very tight, clean, unmarked volume with toning/offsettint to front endpapers in a crisp, sharp, bright, clean, unclipped jacket. Near fine in fine dust jacket..