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WILLARD AND HIS BOWLING TROPHIES: A Perverse Mystery [First UK edition]

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Orlando Booksellers
(Lincoln, Reino Unido)

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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. ***Near fine in black and white photographic illustrated textured front board, brown rear board, and with black titles to a brown spine. Pages clean. No foxing. Boards clean. Spine tight. No inscriptions. ***In a very good colour and black and white photographic illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publishers price of £2.50 net. Spine of dustwrapper faded as is common with this title. No tears. Rear and front panels of dustwrapper bright. ***224 mm x 142mm. 166 pages. ***'The Logan brothers had been looking for their bowling trophies for years. Bowling had been their life's blood until one horrible night they dejectedly returned from a Paul Newman film about pool (which they had thought was going to be about bowling) and found that some unspeakable wretched villain had stolen all their trophies. After that it was a pitiful decline for the Logan brothers. During the three years of staying in dingy, cheap hotel rooms they had held up over a hundred filing stations across America to finance their search for the bowling trophies. ***Meanwhile, in San Fransisco, Bob and Constance played the Story of O game. A plague of warts had reduced their marital delights to Bob's readings from the Greek Anthology---On the floor below, the culprit, Willard, sat tight on the Logan brothers' bowling trophies--- ***---This 'perverse mystery' continues in the shadowy regions where Brautigan first ventured in his Gothic horror, the Hawkline Monster. In Willard, his irresistible humour again mingles blithely with the gloom, making a new, arresting and curious blend.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***'Richard Gary Brautigan (Jan 30, 1935 - Sep 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His work often clinically and surrealistically employs black comedy, parody, and satire, with emotionally blunt prose describing pastoral American life, intertwining with technological progress.' [Wiki] ***First impression of the first UK edition in its original dustwrapper. Of interest to collectors of 1960s / 1970s counter-culture and Richard Brautigan first edition titles. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.***. Nº de ref. del artículo: 4949z

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