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Item Details
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| Author: |
Leavitt, David |
| Title: |
While England Sleeps |
| Place: |
[London] |
| Publisher: |
Viking |
| Date: |
[1993] |
| Item # : |
187278 |
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| Sale Number |
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377 |
| Lot Number |
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101 |
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| Fine Literature; Beats, Bukowski & the Counter Culture; Sci-Fi & Detective Fiction |
| Sale Date |
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04/03/2008 |
| Price realized |
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$ 180 |
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| Description: |
| [14], 304 pp. 8½x5½, pictorial wrappers. First Trade Softbound Edition, suppressed issue. |
| Signed by author on title page. Leavitt's third novel and quite controversial, which made assumptions of a double life of the late great British poet, Sir Stephen Spender, Poet Laureate, who was married yet was also known as a lifelong homosexual, within literary circles. This book represents the true suppressed issue; during publication, a lawsuit was filed in England, and later was settled out of court. Copies of this London edition were to be destroyed, however some copies apparently leaked out. It was re-issued with editing changes, making this edition much more preferred and quite rare. |
| Condition: |
| Fine. |
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