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Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery
by Brautigan, Richard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0671220659
- ISBN 13
- 9780671220655
- Seller
-
New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Simon & Schuster, 1975. First edition. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Remainder mark bottom edge, else Very Good+ in Very Good+ dustjacket. Not price clipped, with $5.95 on flap. The story takes place in San Francisco, California in the early 1970s. The title character is a papier mache bird that shares the front room of a San Francisco apartment with a collection of bowling trophies that some time earlier were stolen from the home of the Logan brothers. The human tenants of this apartment are John and Pat, who have just returned from seeing a Greta Garbo movie in a local movie theater. Their neighbors are Bob and Constance, a married couple going through some rough times in their relationship. Because of their failing relationship, Bob becomes depressed. Meanwhile the Logan brothers are looking for their bowling trophies stolen three years earlier. The brothers have turned their happy life of bowling into a life of vengeance. Brautigan tried to have all the main characters in the story have an intersection that is comically sad. Richard Brautigan got the name Willard in the novel from his friend Stanley Fullerton's paper-mache bird named Willard and, in fact, a bird is on the front cover of the novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010023015
- Title
- Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery
- Author
- Brautigan, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0671220659
- ISBN 13
- 9780671220655
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- X weight
- 11 oz
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...