Giles Goat-Boy Or, the Revised New Syllabus by Barth, John - 1968

Fawcett Crest, 1968. Softcover. Good. P1052, 3rd Fawcett Crest printing, foxing and musty smell

London, UK: Granada: Panther Books. Very Good+. 1981. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Very Good+ to Near Fine in Wraps: shows several rather faint creases near the upper rear corner and an even fainter crease near the lower front corner; the expected light tanning to the text pages due to aging; a tiny, very faint stain at the outside edge of the front panel; the binding is somewhat concave, though it doesn't appear that the book has been read; else flawless; the binding is secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing minor, unobtrusive imperfections only. Bright and Clean. Close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7 x 4.35 X 2 inches) .… Read More

Doubleday, 1966, Garden City, First Ed., 1966. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo, hardcover, corners bumped, some fading to black cloth on cover else interior VG. no dj. 710 deckled pages. Gold endpapers. A very controversial book. The book is allegory, parody, didactic treatise, fable, religious codex, and the takingof it seriously entails the taking of it unseriously" Barth's first commercial success and something of a cult book.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 2 small black marks on red cover. 710pp. Page edges toned. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall

Clean interior. Pictures on request

Doubleday & Co, 1966. Doubleday & Co., 1966, 8vo, 710 pages. Book and jacket in very good condition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Doublday , 1966. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Code H40 on last page. Early printing. Light rubbing to jacket. Price-clipped. .

Garden City: Doubleday & Co, 1966. Black cloth. VG+/no dj. 8vo. 1st Edition, later state with H27 on pg 710

U.S.A: Doubleday & Company, 1966. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Doubleday & Company, 1966. Hardcover BCE in Good Condition with an Acceptable Jacket, with Mylar Protective Cover. The first-person chronicle of the life and teachings of George Giles, who left the goat farm to become Grand Tutor in the human university. Giles is a half-man, half-goat who discovers his humanity and becomes a savior in a story presented as a computer tape given to Barth, who denies it is his work. Binding of dark grey full cloth w/gilt titles. Clean, tight and solid volume. Edges and corners are rubbed, light scuffing of corners, lighter gray small spots near upper edge of front panel; shallow indentation on fore edge of front panel. Rough cut. Former owner name of endpaper. Pages very clean, completely free of any markings, no creases. Jacket is clean and ragged, triangular piece off facing of front cover--see photo. It has protected the book. 710 pages. 9.5 x 6.5… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 1966. Later Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. H40 on last text page. Mild remainder spray bottom edge. Nice copy.