Deadlier than the Male by James Gunn (ARC FIRST) Rare
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Deadlier than the Male by James Gunn (ARC FIRST) Rare
$700.00 USD
Deadlier than the Male by James Gunn (ARC FIRST) Rare
Authors: James Gunn
Location: New York
Publisher: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc.
Date: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Features: Advanced Reader's Copy. First Edition (stated). Blue paper covers with flaps, orange spine. 277 pages. Front flap photo of a very young James Gunn. The author's first and only novel. The 1947 film noir "Born to Kill" was based on this story. Gunn went on to write for movies and television. About this book Robin Durie wrote, "It has a freely developed plot and an absolutely extraordinary tone, pushing each scene towards a violent, ironic and macabre paroxysm... an unexpected dimension, a poetic depth... Of course, nothing like this has ever been written before. The parody is wildly inconsistent, but Deleuze is surely right when he says that, by this means, Gunn creates directions in the real which are wholly new."
Book Condition: Good: Edgewear. Sunned spine leaned hard. Top of spine has one quarter inch chip, bottom has an inch tear to the front. and to the back edge and is creased and chipped. A one inch pale Dampstain to underside front cover and a tidemark to textblock bottom, and along the bottom edge of the back cover and endpaper. Owner's lightly penciled inscription to half-title page. Interior pages clean.
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Authors: James Gunn
Location: New York
Publisher: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc.
Date: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Features: Advanced Reader's Copy. First Edition (stated). Blue paper covers with flaps, orange spine. 277 pages. Front flap photo of a very young James Gunn. The author's first and only novel. The 1947 film noir "Born to Kill" was based on this story. Gunn went on to write for movies and television. About this book Robin Durie wrote, "It has a freely developed plot and an absolutely extraordinary tone, pushing each scene towards a violent, ironic and macabre paroxysm... an unexpected dimension, a poetic depth... Of course, nothing like this has ever been written before. The parody is wildly inconsistent, but Deleuze is surely right when he says that, by this means, Gunn creates directions in the real which are wholly new."
Book Condition: Good: Edgewear. Sunned spine leaned hard. Top of spine has one quarter inch chip, bottom has an inch tear to the front. and to the back edge and is creased and chipped. A one inch pale Dampstain to underside front cover and a tidemark to textblock bottom, and along the bottom edge of the back cover and endpaper. Owner's lightly penciled inscription to half-title page. Interior pages clean.
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