Gasp! [The Kubla Khan Caper] (Vintage Italian hardcover edition)
by Prather, Richard S.; Nini Boraschi (translator)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Parkville, Maryland, United States
Item Price
€23.30€17.48
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About This Item
Longanesi, 1968. Very Good. Gialli Probiti 176, first printing of this edition, 12mo hardcover in original dust jacket, Italian translation of "The Kubla Khan Caper" (Trident Press, 1966, hardcover). Digest-size hardcover, photographic cover featuring island sunset, nude obscured by trees & wrapper text. Other Gialli editions credited models on the jacket flap, not so here. Giusto Vaglieri's "Gialli" imprint was one of Italy's finest, offering translations of (mostly) American crime fiction w/ winking cat face mascot, tiny man in clutched fist illustration on the rear panels, lush, full-color pinup jacket photos of Raquel Welch, Lili St. Cyr, June Wilkinson, others. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, lean, light foxing & toning, faint number stamp on top page edges, tiny stain on rear pg; jacket w/ brief laminate bubbling, a few chips & tears, light scuffs. Somewhat uncommon in jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Well-Stacked Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 127807
- Title
- Gasp! [The Kubla Khan Caper] (Vintage Italian hardcover edition)
- Author
- Prather, Richard S.; Nini Boraschi (translator)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longanesi
- Date Published
- 1968
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- 12mo
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