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The Scapegoat
by Brooke, Jocelyn
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very good +
- Seller
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edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Bodley Head, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Good/Very good +. Slim 8vo, pictorial dust jacket over terracotta cloth boards with gilt titles on spine, upper edge red. 128pp. Dust jacket not price clipped with some edge wear and a small piece absent. Very good + / near fine and clean inside. There has been an inscription on the front endpaper, which is barely visible & has been rubbed out by a previous owner. ‘ The Scapegoat … seemed to promise a tale which might combine the tantalizing excitements of a Myth or Dream with the absorbing interest of a vigorous realistic story…’. Intense, imaginative unease.
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- Bookseller
- Bird's Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2523
- Title
- The Scapegoat
- Author
- Brooke, Jocelyn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- 20th century fiction, british novel, queer literature, gay literature,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Literature & Criticism;
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- Price Clipped
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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