Buy this book on-line STRAUB**, PETER: : HOUSES WITHOUT DOORSUS.NEW YORK,NEW YORK10014.DUTTON/an imprint of New American Library,,November,1990. ISBN 0525249249.
US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Stated First printing, November,1990.] FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn and an absence of publisher's printed price - these edns generally believed to be export edns for issue before trade's distribution in the country of origin.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy, wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Rob Wood illustrated dw/dj,with author’s capitalised, white-lettered name and capitalised,white-lettered title to front of dw/dj with a black-lettered author credit for 'Mystery' between the two.Spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+ lettered author name and title as the front's and publisher’s capitalised,white-lettered name and blue+white illustrated and capitalised,blue-lettered initial of name,colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with no text/lettering, but a white adhesive label over the barcode+ ISBN(? ). Negligible shelf-wear to lower edges and corners including foot of spine which has some miniscule loss,edge-worn top corner tips and head of spine also with miniscule loss – but no other nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean without ageing/toning or any foxing/spotting; contents bright, crisp and tight; clean,solid and sound – virtually pristine with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corners,appears unread other than my own collation.Publisher’s bright, crisp,clean/unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain red paper-covered boards with white/cream cloth blindspine with bright,crisp,blocked gilt-lettered spine/backstrip,a plain white/cream headband and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viipp+5-358pp [paginated] includes a Contents list/table,a collection of 6 stories,the first 5 with an interlude at start,last story with an afterword at end - all with varying numbers of chapters, and to the rear,as last page an Author's NOTE page; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, a dedication,an epigram [Emily Dickinson],and individual title separator pages.
Visually,the external appearance is more than acceptable,and particularly internally,is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it’s 30+ year-old age.It is only the exterior minimal faults described that prevent a slightly higher grading overall.Despite that,it really is still an exemplary example for it’s brightnesss, cleanliness and lack of other age acquired detracting faults commonly encountered in a book of this age.
A selection of short fiction - including outstanding early stories,new pieces,and two never-before-published novellas - features "Mrs. God," "The Buffalo Hunter," and other works.A collection of 13 psychic and horror fictions - seven of them short-shorts.Two tales (the first instalments of his Blue Rose trilogy) are linked to 'Koko' and 'Mystery' and probe the consequences of boyhood clashes with evil.In 'Blue Rose',sadistic Harry Beevers,10,hypnotises and destroys his younger brother; the tale leaps ahead to the ironic verdict in Harry's court-martial for wreaking atrocities in Vietnam.In 'The Juniper Tree',a novelist relives a harrowing,seductive summer,when,at age seven,he was sexually molested in a movie house by drifter Stan,a seedy Alan Ladd lookalike.'The Buffalo Hunter' chronicles the fixations of a 35-year-old who numbs his fear of women by sucking his coffee and cognac baby bottles.In the Gothic thriller/academic spoof 'Mrs God',a fatuous professor is lured to a creepy English mansion crammed with grisly secrets to research the papers of his poetess ancestress; dead babies provide the subtheme.'A Short Guide to the City',fuses and parodies two genres: the self-congratulatory tourist blurb with a news alert on the 'viaduct killer.'
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