Whittemore, Edward
Sinai Tapestry
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977. First Edition. J, H, 1st printing w/complete number sequence. "Tales of a blind man, written down by an imbecile," richly peopled with an eclectic cast the likes of which only Whittemore could have created, including a seven foot, seven inch Victorian explorer, an Albanian Trappist monk and linguistic genius, a three-tbousand-year-old "ethereal wanderer through history," an Irish guerrilla fighter who has fled to Mandated Palestine, and a man who is an "exponent of a homeland for Jews and Moslems and Christians in the Middle East." Red boards w/grey cloth backstrip w/red and black spine lettering, 310 pages. Light edgewear, light wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's name to front end paper, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/light chipping to corners/spine ends, small sticker pull to top right corner of front panel, uneven 2" tear to top left corner of front panel, light soil, scratches. Dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve.; . Very Good, Hard Cover, Good, Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall.
$25.00
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