Search Results: Sporting With Amaryllis by Paul West

Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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Some faint wear and rubbing to the dust jacket, but the book itself is in excellent condition.

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Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bound in paper covered boards with a black cloth spine.

Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This 1st printing is unmarked, square and tight like New.

The Overlook Press, 1996. Jacket and boards have only light wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1996. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 158 pp. .

Overlook Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in very good condition. First edition, first printing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The Overlook Press, 1996-12-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x0. First Edition stated. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.

Woodstock, New York:: Overlook Press,, (1996.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. A novel both erotic and allegorical, lewd and spiritual, in which West uses, as a point of departure, the sexual obsessions and initiation of the poet John Milton. 158 pp.

Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press, 1996. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof of the First American edition. Gold wrappers. Fine.

The Overlook Press, 1996-12-01. Hardcover. Like New.

The Overlook Press, 1996-12-01. Hardcover. New.

Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press, 1996. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Gold wrappers. Fine.

New York: The Overlook Press, 1996. Advance Uncorrected Proof Copy . Softcover. Very Good. 8vo (158 pages). As-new, in wraps, as issued.

Woodstock: Overlook Press, (1996).. First edition.. 158 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with two light vertical creases. Briefly INSCRIBED and additionally SIGNED by West.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

A tight, clean, and unmarked copy." Paul West is one of our most acclaimed writers, author of such novels as Rat Man of Paris and Lord Byron's Doctor. This time out, he astounds us with a novel on the nature of creative genius and its nexus with sexuality, a novel at turns erotic, lewd, philosophical mythical, and spiritual. Review: Readers familiar with the definitive imaginative work on original sin written by the stern, blind 17th-century poet John Milton may be shocked by Paul West's younger version of the man. In Sporting with Amaryllis, West describes a youthful Milton bursting at the seams with sexual curiosity and panting to experience his own personal fall from grace. At turns elegant, vulgar, spiritual, and erotic, this lyrical imagining of Milton's early life presents a mesmerizing portrait of the poet as a young man." Paul West, the author of 16 previous novels, writes in language so vivid and so precise that the streets of 17th-century London leap off the page in all their smelly, filthy… Read More

The Overlook Press, 1996-12-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!