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Book Description Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Seller Inventory # B14B-02618
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Book Description Light foxing along foredge (not effecting margins or text) otherwise very good+ hard cover book in near fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 655301
Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Advance Reading Copy/Proof. Seller Inventory # 239427
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in quarter black cloth and red paper-covered boards, with stamped red lettering to spine. Book, with top edge of text block tinted red, is in excellent condition. Dust jacket has small scuff mark to upper outside corner of front cover. 277 pages. "Ben Janis, innocent and erudite, has two fiercely opposed dreams.One is to become a famous writer. The other is to obey the dictum of Henry James: "Live all you can." A Byron of the suburbs, obsessed with poetry and girls, Ben responds to "The Wasteland" and the Beach Boys with the same intense, ecstatic fervor; his touchstones are "The Oxford Book of English Verse" and the Top Forty list. Growing up in the middle-class college town of Evanston, Illinois, Ben struggles to keep up with the intellectual demands of his father, a doctor with a taste for chamber music and James Joyce. But sex keeps getting in the way. It's the Sixties, when ever seventeen-year-old is licensed to behave like Henry Miller. Do your own thing: only Ben's thing is browsing second-hand bookshops and scribbling villanelles. While he memorized French verbs in his bedroom after dinner, adolescent temptresses in cut-off blue jeans wait outside in their parents' cars, luring him into sin. Admitted to Harvard, Ben never quite manages to locate the college life he'd read about in the cheerful brochure. Instead of enjoying autumn football games and bracing seminars on the great books, he finds himself wandering on the fringes. He beseeches a famous poet to read his own fledgling efforts ('Put on a tie! my father cried at noon/I loitered in the bathroom, pale, jejune'); joins a club for rejects from other clubs; becomes editor of the literary magazine only to discover that he's the whole staff. And he falls in love with Eleanor Josephs, an aspiring writer at Radcliffe, who becomes both his Muse and his Nemesis as she teaches him more about reality than he cares to know. After he wins a fellowship to Oxford, Ben and Eleanor embark on their year abroad.". Seller Inventory # ABE-1596232275992
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. Octavo, 277 pages, clothbacked boards Has been called the American LUCKY JIM. Arguably the funniest and most candid book about literary ambition ever written. Takes place in Evanston, Illinois in the Sixties - and also Harvard and Oxford. "Ben's thing is browsing in second-hand bookshops and scribbling villanelles." Author's first novel. Seller Inventory # 004239
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ dust. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 277 pages. Seller Inventory # 269
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in lightly worn, near fine dust jacket. The author's first novel. Seller Inventory # 561806
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. NEAR FINE+ hardcover book in NEAR FINE+ dust-jacket. NOT marked. NOT price-clipped. Remainder marked. NOT faded. NOT a b/c. NOT an XL. Slight amount of shelf rub to dark DJ. All of our dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective book jacket covers. Seller Inventory # SKU1000569