Author: William Brammer
Title: The Gay Place
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1961 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Willie Lee Brammer's celebrated novel, widely acclaimed as one of the best American political novels ever written. Flat signed by the author to the front free endpaper. Signed examples of this acclaimed work are now scarce.The first edition, first printing.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper in the second state, with dust wrapper designer crossed out.Billy Lee ('William') Brammer's series of three interlocking novellas, published as a single work, take place in an unnamed state identical to Texas. Each of the novellas - The Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper and Country Pleasures - follows a different protagonist: Roy Sherwood, a member of the state legislature; Neil Christiansen, the state's junior senator; and Jay McGown, the governor's speechwriter. Brammer won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award for the book in 1960 In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise externally excellent. Inscription to front free endpaper. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with significant losses to back strip head and tail. Chip to head of rear wrap, with light edgewear to front wrap head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Good.
Keywords: The Gay Place Billy Lee Brammer political novel The Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper and Country Pleasures. Billy Lee Brammer None
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Title: The Gay Place
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1961 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Willie Lee Brammer's celebrated novel, widely acclaimed as one of the best American political novels ever written. Flat signed by the author to the front free endpaper. Signed examples of this acclaimed work are now scarce.The first edition, first printing.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper in the second state, with dust wrapper designer crossed out.Billy Lee ('William') Brammer's series of three interlocking novellas, published as a single work, take place in an unnamed state identical to Texas. Each of the novellas - The Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper and Country Pleasures - follows a different protagonist: Roy Sherwood, a member of the state legislature; Neil Christiansen, the state's junior senator; and Jay McGown, the governor's speechwriter. Brammer won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award for the book in 1960 In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise externally excellent. Inscription to front free endpaper. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with significant losses to back strip head and tail. Chip to head of rear wrap, with light edgewear to front wrap head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Good.
Keywords: The Gay Place Billy Lee Brammer political novel The Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper and Country Pleasures. Billy Lee Brammer None
Price: GBP 270.00 = appr. US$ 385.56 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 951F59
- Book number: 951F59
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