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ROBBINS, TOM: : Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas. [UK,Book Proof copy.]

LONDON.A BANTAM BOOK,8th December,1994.

ISBN 055340928X.

UK,12mo p/back Original,Book Proof. [Publication date 8th December,1994.Often of limited availability,the text of a forthcoming book,is printed and bound in softcovers for use by the author,editors,proofreaders and some favoured reviewers.For undecorated printed wraps,with minimal publication data imprinted - the produced/released number of copies would almost certainly be less than 500,and most probably would tend to be around 200 copies.For glossy pictorial illustrated wrappers,produced numbers are often higher than 200,but either have a scarcity to them.Often errors or earlier versions of text appear in these proofs.Versions where the text has changed considerably are obviously considered more desirable by their nature.] Near MINT. Wrapped+protected and stored from day of distribution - so NO owner inscrptn, NO reading creases to spine or pages' corners - unread other than my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,glossy laminated,green+ white illustrated front's stiff card cover,with a green band at both upper+lower edges with capitalised,white-lettered BOOK PROOF to top and a critic's [Thomas Pynchon] white-lettered review to lower; in between the bands,a white background with a green illustrated Frog and author's capitalised,green-lettered name,other green-lettered title and a mix of capitals+lower cased lettering respectively,of author credited INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER,and the title of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.A flat and reading creases-free white spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered title and author name as the front's,and publisher's thumbnail, green illustrated Bantam colophon to foot of same,rear cover with white background with capitalised,green-lettered A BANTAM PAPERBACK ORIGINAL along its top edge and a critic's [Los Angeles Times] green-lettered review beneath,and other green-lettered synopsis; plus publisher's promotional details but with NO publication details of book's size,pagination,price or its ISBN.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges exceptionally bright and clean without ageing/toning or any foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread,other than my own collation.UK,Book Proof copy,3-386pp [paginated] no numerated chapters but section separator pages of novel, and [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,an epigram [Encyclopaedia Britannica],another epigram [Isaac Bashevis Singer] and a title separator page. Want other PROOF copies? Please search my MODERN FIRSTS, MODERN FIRSTS2, CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED, BIOGRAPHY, SIGNED, NAVAL/MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY catalogues for examples. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 30-year-old age and nature, i.e an ephemeral paperback Original Proof. It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults associated with a decades old paperback.Scarce,as a low print run of probably only 200.                                A paperback Original,which denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title and published prior to any other format.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but paperback/softback Originals are either the only format in the country of origin, or sometimes,even worldwide.This stated paperback Original will be published simultaneously with reissues of Robbins's 'Skinny Legs and All' and 'Still Life with Woodpecker'. When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter,you - an ambitious,although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker - are convinced that you're facing the Weekend from Hell.Before the market reopens on Monday,you're going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt,but there's no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic,the fall from grace of a born-again monkey,or the intrusion in your life of a tattooed stranger intent on blowing your mind and most of your fuses.Over these fateful three days,you will be forced to confront everything from mysterious African rituals to legendary amphibians,from tarot-card bombshells to street violence,from your own sexuality to outer space.This is,after all,a Tom Robbins novel - and the author has never been in finer form. Please contact seller,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,12mo p/back Original,Book Proof.
Not SIGNED.

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