THE LAND OF LAUGHS
$250 · Offered by L. W. Currey
First edition
New York: The Viking Press, 1980 . Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. The author's first book. Obsessed with the works of Marshall France, a deceased reclusive children's author, Thomas Abbey travels to Galen, Missouri, the small town where France lived much of his life, in order to research and write France's biography. Abbey soon discovers that Galen and its inhabitants are intimately connected to France's
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