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THE END OF THE ROAD
by BARTH, JOHN
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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PASADENA, California, United States
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About This Item
DOUBLEDAY Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). FIRST. A FINE FIRST EDITION IN DJ SIGNED and INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE.
Synopsis
The Sot-Weed Factor is a 1960 novel by John Barth that satirizes picaresque novels such as Tristram Shandy and Tom Jones. ("Sot-weed" is an old term for the tobacco plant. A "factor" is a middleman who buys something to resell it. ) TIME included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. The novel takes its title from a poem of the same name published in London in 1708 and signed Ebenezer Cooke.
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Details
- Bookseller
- VAGABOND BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- fic 6/13
- Title
- THE END OF THE ROAD
- Author
- BARTH, JOHN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- FIRST
- Publisher
- DOUBLEDAY
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
VAGABOND BOOKS
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PASADENA, California
About VAGABOND BOOKS
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- Fine
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- Title Page
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