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The first published work by American writer John Barth, first published in 1956 and significantly revised in 1967. The existentialist and nihilistic story is a first-person account of a day that protagonist Todd Andrews contemplated suicide.
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- PublisherSecker & Warburg
- Publication date1968
- ISBN 10 0436033720
- ISBN 13 9780436033728
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages247
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The Floating Opera
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, revised from the US of 1956. Hardcover, bound in boards with dust jacket. Edge-wear, the jacket with some nicks and a short tear rear panel. Seller Inventory # M23-Bx165-A
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Mild shelf wear to extremities, no jacket. Gentle lean to spine. Inscriptions on first page. Light foxing and tanning to page edges. Contents clear and legible. Seller Inventory # 003725-4
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First British edition. Small soil mark on the foredge, else near fine in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with a couple short closed tears on the cover and rear panel, and light toning on the rear panel. Barth's first published work. Seller Inventory # 544563
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Light shelfwear to jacket edges, bottom corners a bit bumped. Barth's 1st novel. This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0436033720. ISBN/EAN: 9780436033728. Inventory No: 041338. Seller Inventory # 041338
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition thus. Wear and small tears to extremities of dust wrapper.Light age spotting to inside boards and to end papers. Age toning along closed edges. Light reading wer to book. 248 pages. No internal inscriptions, torn or missing pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Literature & Literary; Fiction. ISBN: 0436033720. ISBN/EAN: 9780436033728. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51356. Seller Inventory # 51356
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Discoloraton to jacket, browning and light wear. Gift inscription dated 1959 from Charlie Leach. Glenway Wescott's copy with his Exlibris laid in. Small hole about the size of a punch through the middle of the title page. Still, an attractive copy of Barth's fine first novel and a nice association. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0436033720. ISBN/EAN: 9780436033728. Inventory No: 048379. Seller Inventory # 048379
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First British Edition. Signed first British edition. (Follows two American editions.) 247 p. Crimson cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Inscribe dby author on title page to former owners. Light bumping to corners. Chip at foot of jacket, laminate bubble at edge of front panel, back flap creased, price clipped. Barth's first book, with the restored ending, uncommon signed. Seller Inventory # 150907015
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