Once Upon a Time: a Floating Opera - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994.
ISBN: 0316082627
Once Upon a Time: a Floating Opera - 1st Edition/1st Printing
A Fine first printing of the first edition in equally unblemished dust-jacket, signed by author John Barth directly on the half title page.
This "memoir wrapped in a novel" finds the author and his wife lost at sea during a cruise on Chesapeake Bay, where Barth meets up with his fictional twin sister and a friend who take him through a journey of his past novels. What was to be a modest three day cruise on a cutter-rigged sloop turns out to be a memoir at sea through sun and storm ; 8vo ; [x], 398 pages; Signed by Author.
Price: $60.00
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