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THE WHEREWITHAL: A Novel in Verse.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, (2014). First edition - A novel in verse by this Pulitzer prize winning poet. It tells the story of "a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mothers diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre, an event that took place in German-occupied Poland in 1941.. . it is a meditation on the nature of evil and the destruction of war." 177 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A rather uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 78029More details Price: $21.50 -
DR. I.R.T.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young adult novel of an oddly assorted trio. Miss Eunice Tichenor, a spinsterlibrarian/scholar, subway rider Snake (aka "Dr. I.R.T."), a black Yale drop-out and draft. dodger, who writes songs, and Umberto, a young Mexican student who discovers that "the city's a wonderful if filthy and occasionally terrifying 'total learning experience'." (Kirkus) Tanner's husband was the author of the Auntie Mame novels under the pseudonym of Patrick Dennis. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-698107306.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (very short edgetears to dj, whiteout on top of price on dj flap). Surprisingly uncommon.
Book ID: 79002More details Price: $21.50 -
DR. I.R.T.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young adult novel of an oddly assorted trio. Miss Eunice Tichenor, a spinsterlibrarian/scholar, subway rider Snake (aka "Dr. I.R.T."), a black Yale drop-out and draft. dodger, who writes songs, and Umberto, a young Mexican student who discovers that "the city's a wonderful if filthy and occasionally terrifying 'total learning experience'." (Kirkus) Tanner's husband was the author of the Auntie Mame novels under the pseudonym of Patrick Dennis. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-698107306.
Condition: Fair only in a near fine dustjacket (some crinkling to edge of textblock from dampness, stamps on rear endpaper, very short edgetears to dj). Surprisingly uncommon.
Book ID: 79236More details Price: $14.50