In The Future Perfect
by Walter Abish
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good, corners at tail lightly pushed, slight cant to spine along with a slight cock./Very Good jacket, some toning on verso, light handling wear to edges and corners.
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: New Directions, 1977. 8vo, blue boards with black lettering down spine in pictorial jacket, 113 pp. Very Good, corners at tail lightly pushed, slight cant to spine along with a slight cock./Very Good jacket, some toning on verso, light handling wear to edges and corners.. Jacket photograph by Eva Rubinstein; design by Getrude Huston. Ever the experimental master known best for his exploits in Alphabetical Africa and How German Is It, Abish here presents the other side of his work in short form.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 881
- Title
- In The Future Perfect
- Author
- Walter Abish
- Illustrator
- Jacket photograph by Eva Rubinstein; design by Getrude Huston
- Format/Binding
- 8vo, blue boards with black lettering down spine in pictorial jacket, 113 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, corners at tail lightly pushed, slight cant to spine along with a slight cock.
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good jacket, some toning on verso, light handling wear to edges and corners.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- walter abish, alphabetical africa, how german is it, experimental fiction, experimental, modernism, late modernism, new directions, american fiction, american literature, postwar fiction
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