Item #30498 Obituaries. William Saroyan.
"Obituaries is not about Death, it is about that large mystery that has come out of light and is, of course, called Life. (And the hell with that, too)."

Obituaries

Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 1979. Very Good + / Near Fine. Item #30498
ISBN: 0916870170

Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 1979. First Edition. Octavo (23.4 cm), [x], 354pp + 1 photo. Publisher's red and pictorial dust jacket with price intact ($15). Boards full bound in red cloth with gilt stamping on front cover and spine. Decorative endsheets. Dust jacket scuffed lightly but unobtrusively; Spine sunned; Margins and spine ends bumped and creased slightly; Verso toned at joints. Board corners and spine ends lightly bumped with minor rubbing to cloth. Page edges have minor scratches. Pages clean. A Very Good or better copy in Near Fine dust jacket.

William Saroyan uses the Necrology register of Variety magazine from 1979 to comment and reflect on the lives of his, now late, contemporaries.

Price: $65.00

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