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- Used
Seller: Aah Rare Chicago, Carlsbad, CA, U.S.A.Aah Rare Chicago
AbeBooks seller since February 27, 1999
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 29.25
Quantity: 1 available
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(3) + 6 - 64 PAGES. THIS IS THE TRADE EDITION OF JAMES T. FARRELL'S ESSAY THAT HE CALLED A "PROSE POEM" ABOUT GENESIS AND THE BEGINNING OF HUMANKIND WITH THE CREATION OF ADAM AND EVE. IN THE BOOK'S INTRODUCTION, FARRELL STATES THAT HE WROTE THE ESSAY IN A CONTINUOUS 20 HOUR INTERVAL. HIS INTENT WAS TO USE THE ESSAY IN HIS BOOKS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF TIME BUT HE CHOSE INSTEAD TO HAVE IT PUBLISHED IN THE 1961 SUMMER/ FALL ISSUE OF "THE AMERICAN BOOK COLLECTOR." FARRELLS NEWEST PUBLISHER, "THE SMITH" PUBLISHED THE BOOK IN B0TH A LIMITED EDITION AND A TRADE EDITION BY ARRANGEMENT WITH THE HORIZON PRESS. THE DUST JACKET HAS RUBBING OF THE COVERS AND MODERATE SHELF WEAR WITH CHIPPING AND BEGINNING SPLITTING OF THE SEAM. THE BOOK IS TIGHT AND CLEAN WITHOUT ANY DEFECTS. THE INTRODUCTION IS INTERESTING, FOLLOWERS OF FARRELL'S WRITINGS CAN RECOGNIZE A BEGINNNIG DISILLUSIONMENT BY FARRELL PERHAPS PRECIPITATED BY THE CRITICISM OF HIS WRITING FOLLOWING THE SUCCESS OF THE "STUDS LONIGAN" TRILOGY. FINALLY. EDGAR M. BRANCH ADDS A SUPPLENT UPDATE TO fARRELL'S BIBLIOGRAPHY. THE TTLE IS "A SUPPLEMENT TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES T. FARRELL'S WRITINGS." Size: 5 11/16" X 8 3/4". …
Seller Inventory # 444154
Bibliographic details
- Title
- WHEN TIME WAS BORN
- Author
- JAMES T. FARRELL
- Publisher
- THE SMITH
- Publication year
- 1966
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- POOR CONDITION
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- FIRST TRADE EDITION.
- Seller catalogs
- CHICAGO AUTHOR, FARRELL, FARRELL A
Aah Rare Chicago
Carlsbad, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since February 27, 1999
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Aah! Rare Chicago specializes in collections of Chicago authors such as David Mamet, Ben Hecht, Vincent Starrett,James T. Farrell, Eugene Field, George Ade, Studs Terkel and many others along with collections of Chicago Publishers such as Stone and Kimball and Way and Willams. We have hundreds of books about Chicago dating back to the early 1800s including Crime, Prostitution, Banking, Mayors, Architecture, Newspapers, Sports, the 1968 Democratic convention riots including posters and the subsequent conspiracy trial, Prefire imprints and Business. Much of the material is very difficult to find material such as in early in magazines and other ephemera.…
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Aah Rare Chicago
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Carlsbad, CA U.S.A. 92011
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