Monday Night
by Boyle, Kay
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. Kay Boyle (1902-1992) writes here a modernist mystery, certainly an oddity in mystery fiction. that seems like a precursor to Sam Beckett's "Godot." A naive medical student arrives in Paris and hooks up with a drunken writer; they wander about in search of a mysterious forensic doctor. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition [stated "first edition"]. Dark blue cloth binding with titling on the spine in silver. Clean text; 274 pages.This is a Review Copy, so stamped on the FFEP with a publication date of July 28,1938. Previous-owner signature. Hardly any wear, but sunfaded at the top edges. The dusjacket is very Good. Light edgewear, with the head of the spine lightly chipped. In an archival plastic protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006310
- Title
- Monday Night
- Author
- Boyle, Kay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature (Mysteries);
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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