A PAUSE IN THE DESERT: and Other Stories.
by Farge, Oliver La
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket.(some edgewear and short closed tears to dj, original price of $3.50 still present on flap)/very good
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1957.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket.(some edgewear and short closed tears to dj, original price of $3.50 still present on flap). First printing. A rather uncommon collection of short stories by this Pulitzer Prize winning writer and noted anthrolopolist. He "covers many aspects of everyday life in these sixteen stories, which range from an old man facing death alone in the Mexican bush to some boys facing the responsibilities of life at St. Peter's school; from the science fiction world of computing machines to the world of gourmets; and from the violent death of a man off the Rhode Island coast to the quiet death of a marriage in New Mexico." 235 pp.
Synopsis
"Facsimile of 1957 Edition." Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1957.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61360
- Title
- A PAUSE IN THE DESERT: and Other Stories.
- Author
- Farge, Oliver La
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket.(some edgewear and short closed tears to dj, original price of $3.50 still present on flap)
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- 1957.
- Keywords
- science fiction, southwest,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short story collections;
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