Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter E

by Ernest Vincent Wright

$1,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Co., 1939. First edition. 267 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black lettering. Apparently bound without photo frontispiece a variant? , else Near Fine with a few small stains to back board, former owner's name on front free endpaper. A clean bright copy, sturdily bound. Lacking jacket. A legendary rarity; the warehouse holding copies of this self-published novel without the letter

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