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A Garden of Earthly Delights [Signed bookplate laid in]
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1967. Very Good / Very Good. Item #31708
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); [viii],440pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; boards in green cloth with dark green and white lettering to spine; red topstain. Jacket rubbed and creased along edges with a few shallow closed tears, sunning to spine, and scuffs and tears to head and tail; scattered foxing to verso with tape reinforcement at head. Boards faded along edges with some scuffs and dust-soiling to cloth and nudging at spine ends. Spine slightly cocked. A bit of fading to topstain. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in at front. Oates' second novel — the first in her Wonderland Quartet and a finalist for the 1968 National Book Award.
Price: $150.00