PEYTON PLACE
de Metalious, Grace
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Librería
-
Austin, Texas, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York: Simon and Schuster 1956 copyright, but dust jacket flap mentions the TV series and her death in 1964 [vi], 378pp [mild chipping and edge wear to dust jacket]. Book Club. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Sinopsis
The plot of Peyton Place is quite controversial among modern first editions, and the history of its publication is just as scandalous. Peyton Place was largely based off of the small town scandals that were known to plague several New England towns. Some of the places and characters so closely resembled their real life counterparts that author Grace Metalious was actually sued for libel. Some of the people in these towns were particularly distraught that their communities were depicted so negatively, the reception of Peyton Place nearly drove Metalious into hiding. The book was first published by Julian Messner, Inc in 1956, and it was an instant hit. Through word of mouth, it sold approximately 60,000 copies in the first two weeks of its publication, and it stayed on the New York Time best seller list for 59 weeks. It was so popular, it was adapted into a film and into a multi-year daytime soap opera. The first US edition dust jacket is fairly plain and the paper quality was low, so the jacket is likely to be browned or yellowed with age. Famously, Metalious was sued for libel by one of the people who was included in the book. Tomas Makris was featured in Peyton Place , and his name and physical characteristics matched the real-life individual. Notably, the character's name in UK edition was changed to Michael Kyros, and the character's name was changed in later US editions to Michael Rossi. In a shocking twist that infuriated many, Metalious had actually forged Makris' name on the release form. Such behavior is of course condemned by the literary community.
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Detalles
- Librería
- David H. Gerber Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 017390
- Título
- PEYTON PLACE
- Autor
- Metalious, Grace
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good+
- Edición
- Book Club
- Editorial
- Simon and Schuster
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Palabras clave
- Fiction, Novel
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Retain;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Sobre el vendedor
David H. Gerber Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2003
Austin, Texas
Sobre David H. Gerber Books
David H. Gerber - Books is an Internet and referral only business that has been involved in bookselling and booksearching since 1989. We feature a very general stock of out-of-print books ranging from juvenile to erotica, from mysteries to expositions, and from the mundane to the sublime, but with an ever increasing emphasis on non-fiction, particularly in the areas of history, Texas, politics, scholarly, and the unusual and esoteric.
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
