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THE UNSTRUNG HARP; OR, MR. EARBRASS WRITES A NOVEL
de Edward Gorey
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very good +/good +
- Librería
-
Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce/Little Brown, 1953. first edition as stated. Hardcover. Very good +/good +. 5 x 8 in. Matching pictoral paper boards. Stated first edition, 1953. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers extremely clean and fresh with a touch of wear to corners, light wear to spine ends. Binding tight. Gift message dated 1955 on ffep, small bookseller's label on rear pastedown "Palmer's Book Shop 224 Maine St. Brunswick Maine". Text very clean, edges show a touch of toning. DJ is GOOD+ ; not clipped ($2.00) very clean except a tiny red pencil mark bwlow the curtains on front. Upper front edge has a couple of long chips, rear has two larger at same edge. In a new Mylar wrapper. Rare. RGR.
Sinopsis
On November 18th of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel.' Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the 17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to which The Unstrung Harp might apply, but his mind will keep reverting to the last biscuit on the plate." So begins what the Times Literary Supplement called "a small masterpiece." TUH is a look at the literary life and its "attendant woes: isolation, writer's block, professional jealousy, and plain boredom." But, as with all of Edward Gorey's books, TUH is also about life in general, with its anguish, turnips, conjunctions, illness, defeat, string, parties, no parties, urns, desuetude, disaffection, claws, loss, trebizond, napkins, shame, stones, distance, fever, antipodes, mush, glaciers, incoherence, labels, miasma, amputation, tides, deceit, mourning, elsewards. You get the point. Finally, TUH is about Edward Gorey the writer, about Edward Gorey writing The Unstrung Harp. It's a cracked mirror of a book, and it's dedicated to RDP or Real Dear Person.
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- Librería
- Andre Strong Bookseller
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 50359
- Título
- THE UNSTRUNG HARP; OR, MR. EARBRASS WRITES A NOVEL
- Autor
- Edward Gorey
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good +
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- good +
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- first edition as stated
- Editorial
- Duell, Sloan and Pearce/Little Brown
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1953
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- FFEP
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Edges
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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