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Item Details
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| Author: |
Genet, Jean |
| Title: |
Notre-Dame des Fleurs [Our Lady of the Flowers] |
| Place: |
[Loyon] |
| Publisher: |
L’Arbalete |
| Date: |
[1944] |
| Item # : |
181698 |
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| Sale Number |
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377 |
| Lot Number |
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241 |
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| Fine Literature; Beats, Bukowski & the Counter Culture; Sci-Fi & Detective Fiction |
| Sale Date |
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04/03/2008 |
| Price realized |
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$ 120 |
| includes 20% buyer's premium |
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| Description: |
| 411 pp. 7˝x5˝, French-style wrappers, original glassine. First Trade Edition. |
| Author's first book; account of a man's journey through the Parisian underworld. Also, a major influence on the Beat Generation, with its free-flowing, highly poetic language mixed with argot/slang, and its celebration of lowlifes and explicit descriptions of homosexuality. Text in French. |
| Condition: |
| Light edge wear and soiling, other minor wear; near fine overall. |
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