Publicado por Grove Press, New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 0802111084 ISBN 13: 9780802111081
Librería: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Cloth-backed paper over boards; illustrated dust jacket; 8vo; pp. xi, [1], 162. Spine tips and corners gently bumped; very faint stain on fore-edge of text block, nowhere infringing into the margins or text itself. Dust jacket is fine, not price-clipped, in mylar. First Edition, First Printing, with complete number line.
Publicado por Viking / Penguin Group, London, 1989
ISBN 10: 0670829080 ISBN 13: 9780670829088
Librería: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Jacket by Joanna Ciechanowska Ilustrador. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, small closed tear to top front jacket, corners very slightly rubbed. Not price clipped (£12.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 162pp. American author John Kennedy Toole (1939-69), wrote 'The Neon Bible' for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript was finally published twenty years after Toole's death from suicide. 'The Neon Bible' opens with a young man named David on a train, leaving the small Southern town he's grown up in for the first time. What unspools is the tender and tragic coming of age story of a lonely child, a story that revolves around David's unorthodox friendship with his great aunt Mae, a former stage performer who is fiercely at odds with the conservative townspeople, and the everyday toll of living in an environment of religious fanaticism. From the opening lines of 'The Neon Bible', David is fully alive, naive yet sharply observant, drawing us into his world through the sure artistry of John Kennedy Toole, author of his other posthumously published novel 'A Confederacy of Dunces'.