Quake, Quake, Quake - A Leaden Treasury of English Verse
by Dehn, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Previous owner's name at top of free front endpaper, otherwise book is in fine condition./Dust jacket with a few very tiny nicks and tears, overall very good to fine.
- Seller
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Toledo, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Stated first printing. Small 8vo hardcover. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". Yellow textured paper covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. Previous owner's name at top of free front endpaper, otherwise book is in fine condition./Dust jacket with a few very tiny nicks and tears, overall very good to fine.. Ghoulishly witty illustrations by Edward Gorey: one (and sometimes two) to each poem.. Paul Dehn's hair-raising parodies of familiar verses are a stinging effort to confront mankind with the idiocy of its course toward self-destruction. He has taken the songs of our former innocence and readjusted each one to show how far we have departed from the spirit of the original. The result would be terrifying if it were not so funny - and funny if it were not so terrifying.
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- Bookseller
- Frogtown Books, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 417
- Title
- Quake, Quake, Quake - A Leaden Treasury of English Verse
- Author
- Dehn, Paul
- Illustrator
- Ghoulishly witty illustrations by Edward Gorey: one (and sometimes two) to each poem.
- Format/Binding
- Small 8vo hardcover. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". Yellow textured paper covered boards. Illustrated endpapers
- Book Condition
- Used - Previous owner's name at top of free front endpaper, otherwise book is in fine condition.
- Jacket Condition
- Dust jacket with a few very tiny nicks and tears, overall very good to fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
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