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First US edition, limited issue of The Hostage by Brendan Behan, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author.
First US edition, limited issue of The Hostage by Brendan Behan, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author.
First US edition, limited issue of The Hostage by Brendan Behan, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author.

one of 26 copies - specially bound and signed by the author


BEHAN, Brendan.

The Hostage.

New York, Grove Press Inc., 1958.

$1,192.00
$1,192.00

The Hostage.

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First US edition of Behan's masterwork, this being copy N of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author.

First US edition, limited issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author, of which this is copy N; 8vo; newspaper clippings loosely inserted causing offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's quarter brown cloth over grey paper boards, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover; near-fine.

Stock code 111964

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First US edition, limited issue of The Hostage by Brendan Behan, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author.

The Hostage.

$1,192.00
$1,192.00

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