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A MAN WITHOUT SHOES.
by Sanford, John ( born Julian Lawrence Shapiro 1904 - 2003)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in very good dust jacket (corners bumped, edgewear and several small tears on dust jacket)./very good
- ISBN 10
- 0876855443
- ISBN 13
- 9780876855447
- Seller
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About This Item
Santa Barbara:: Black Sparrow Press,, (1982). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (corners bumped, edgewear and several small tears on dust jacket).. First edition, second issue. Originally privately printed for publication by the Plantin Press, Los Angeles in 1951 (after being rejected by many publishers because of the controversy over the topic, and because Sanford was blacklisted by the House for Unamerican Activities Committee for refusing to name names), this was reissued by Black Sparrow with a new tipped-in title page and a new five page introduction by Sanford. A novel concerned with an American attempting to discover the America of his time...The period of 1909-1938." Includes the original SIGNED colophon page showing that this is Copy 1162 of 2000. 452 pp. In the original printed beige dust jacket with the Plantin Press publisher information crossed out and Black Sparrow Press added.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55772
- Title
- A MAN WITHOUT SHOES.
- Author
- Sanford, John ( born Julian Lawrence Shapiro 1904 - 2003)
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good dust jacket (corners bumped, edgewear and several small tears on dust jacket).
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0876855443
- ISBN 13
- 9780876855447
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press,
- Place of Publication
- Santa Barbara:
- Date Published
- (1982)
- Keywords
- huac, communism, house committee on unamerican activities, plantin press,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern first editions;
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