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99, the new meaning / Walter Abish ; with photographs by Cecile Abish.

LIBRA PS3551.B5 N5 1990
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LIBRA - Rare PS3551.B5 N5 1990 Mathews copy
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Abish, Walter, author.
Contributor:
Waldrop, Rosmarie, book designer.
Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017, former owner.
Burning Deck (Firm), publisher.
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Harry Mathews Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Standardized Title:
Short stories. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
United States.
Manners and customs.
Genre:
Fiction.
Short stories.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017 (inscription) (Mathews copy)
Abish, Walter (autograph) (Mathews copy)
Physical Description:
110 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Other Title:
Ninety-nine, the new meaning
Place of Publication:
Providence [R.I.] : Burning Deck, 1990.
Contents:
What else
Inside out
Skin deep
Reading Kafka in German
99, the new meaning.
Notes:
Short stories.
"[Of this book] there are 3000 copies, of which 450 are clothbound, and 50 clothbound and signed"--Colophon.
"Designed by ... Rosmarie Waldrop"--Colophon.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.
Mathews Collection copy has inscription: "For Harry to decipher----Best, Walter"
ISBN:
0930901673
9780930901677
0930901665
9780930901660
0930901681
9780930901684
OCLC:
20294616

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