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Been Down so Long it Looks like Up to Me: A Novel

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in Very Good DJ: The book shows only the most minute indications of use: a mall bit of address-label residue at the upper corner of the front free endpaper; else flawless - if not 'fresh'; the binding remains square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing very mild wear only. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Close to 'As New'. The DJ shows moderate rubbing and faint consequent soiling to the white background field of the panels and backstrip; the price ($5.95) is intact. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo (8.65 x 5.85 x 1.5 inches) . Language: English. Weight: 22 ounces. Green quarter cloth on blue-grey boards with yellow, black, and white designs at the front panel and similarly colored titles and designs at the backstrip. Hardcover with DJ. Richard Fariña evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering-among other things-mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth. This book has been re-issued as a "Penguin Twentieth-Century Classic". Farina's first book and only one published while he was alive. Blurb on front flap from Thomas Pynchon who was a classmate. Both studied under Vladimir Nabokov at Cornell. Classic DJ cover art by Eric von Schmidt. Eric Von Schmidt (1931 2007) was an American folk musician and painter. He was associated with the folk boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s and was a key part of the Cambridge folk music scene. As a singer and guitarist, he was considered to be the leading specialist in country blues in Cambridge at the time, the counterpart of Greenwich Village's Dave Van Ronk. Von Schmidt co-authored with Jim Rooney Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Year. Von Schmidt had a parallel career as a painter, and created album covers for Joan Baez, Cisco Houston, John Renbourn, Reverend Gary Davis, the Blue Velvet Band, Jackie Washington Landron and for James Baldwin's readings. He also created the cover for The Blues Project compendium of white blues performers (Elektra 1964). Von Schmidt illustrated a 1973 book of twenty-five ghost stories called The Haunting of America, by Jean Anderson. In the final 30 years of his life, Von Schmidt recorded only two records, and instead focused on his art career. Four years before his death, von Schmidt painted his last epic of American history. The canvas' subject was of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery honoring its bicentennial. He also continued work on his "Giants of the Blues" series of paintings. Von Schmidt also illustrated numerous children's books including a number of collaborations with Sid Fleischman. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii, 329 pages. Nº de ref. del artículo: 58222

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