Double negative: A novel Unknown - 1980

New York. 1980. Dial Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0803717776. 246 pages. hardcover. Jacket Design by Judith K. Leeds. keywords: Literature America Mystery. FROM THE PUBLISHER - One almost hesitates to call this fascinating and richly comic novel a mystery, yet it is. There is murder, and a mystery is solved, but within these conventional boundaries the terrain is filled with wildness - bizarre killings in an ivory tower think-tank on the Wabash, where colleagues who can barely stand the sight of one another study the linguistic patterns of children. The first victim is a man who makes a fetish of cultivating enemies. The prime suspect is an iconoclastic linguist named Jeremy Cook, whose efforts to clear himself bring him into conflict with shrewd Lieutenant Leaf. To catch the murderer, Jeremy Cook must decipher a constantly changing language, a tongue known to everyone but remembered by no one, a riddle language in which it is impossible tO lie - baby talk. DOUBLE… Leer más

New York: Dial Press, 1980. First edition. . Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Good+ condition.. 246 p.; 22 cm. Stated first printing

1st printing of 1st edition; inscribed by author. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine DJ. Tan boards backed with dark blue cloth, red metallic titles on spine. Bright, clean, square covers and spine are As New; tightly bound; very slight dust spotting on text block edges; inscribed on title page 'For Kate | David Carkeet'; bright, clean interior. DJ is bright, clean and complete; very slight rubbing wear at spine end corners. Inscription was to Kate Mattes, owner of a prominent Boston area bookstore. 8vo, 246 pp.

Dial Press, 1980. Hardcover. Good.

New York: The Dial Press, 1980. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. Signed first edition, 1980. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 246 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good+ dust jacket, light soiling or discoloration to the page-edges, some soiling or discoloration to the dust jacket, light wear to the tips and edges of the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. Signed by Carkeet on the title page. Author's first book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.