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1961 The Gay Place
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Description
First Edition, Proof Copy, Publishers' Original Binding
An 'advance copy for friends in the book trade', with 'first printing' to colophon.
In the original paper wraps.
Billy Lee ('William') Brammer's series of three interlocking novellas, published as a single work, take place in an unnamed state identical to Texas. Each of the novellas - The Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper and Country Pleasures - follows a different protagonist: Roy Sherwood, a member of the state legislature; Neil Christiansen, the state's junior senator; and Jay McGown, the governor's speechwriter.
Brammer won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award for the book in 1960
Inscription of Lucille Hageman to the front pastedown.
Condition
In the publisher's original paper wraps. A touch of fading to back strip, with handling marks to wraps. Light rubbing to joints. Front hinge a touch strained, but firmly held. Inscription to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.
Very Good
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