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The Priest: Available Copies

Fairly worn, but readable and intact. If applicable: Dust jacket, disc or access code may not be included.

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Former library book; Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

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On the surface, Father Pat Bryce of Minneapolis is a fine man, a pro-life activist running a boarding house for pregnant girls to save them from an abortion. In reality, he is a pederast with a fondness for altar boys and he is shelling out parish funds to keep a blackmailer quiet. The story of a double life. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

First Edition. First edition.

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Knopf March 1995

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Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Horror novel. From the author's personal copies. Fine in jacket.

New York: Knopf (1995). First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A clean, tight copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free shop. Defect-free. F3400.

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover first edition, first printing and first US edition. First American Edition stated on copyright page. (Previously published in the UK.) Very fine (unread) copy in very fine jacket. Not a remainder, book club or ex-library copy. Noir satire subtitled "A Gothic Romance" by the same author of "The M.D." which was a horror bestseller. "A wickedly funny romp."

Fast Free Shipping â" Excellent condition book with clean cover and pages. Barely handled, with minimal wear. An outstanding copy, close to enjoy!

ISBN 0-679-41880-6. Hardback. First Printing. Very Good condition book in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight sound unmarked copy. $24.00 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket.

Signed Copy First edition copy. . Like New dust jacket. Signed by author on title page. In protective mylar cover. From the library of science fiction and fantasy writer, editor, publisher and prolific book reviewer D. Douglas Fratz. (horror, fantasy, catholicism)

Trade paperback Uncorrected Proof, 302 pages; tiny traces of shelf wear to edges and blindingly white covers, but unread condition.

The first edition of this "Gothic Romance" by the prolific Mr. Disch. An as new copy in bright dustwrapper.

Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Stated First American Edition. Black cloth over gray boards, silver spine lettering. 286 pp. Two-tone, brick-red cloth over boards, black cloth-backed. The Sub was the fourth, darkly comic novel about a substitute teacher's descent into violent revenge against his students and community, completing the quartet begun with The Businessman (1984), The M.D. (1991), and this, The Priest (published first in 1994), featuring Father Patrick Bryce, a disturbed priest with a pedophile past. 303 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "In the 1960s, his work began appearing in science-fiction magazines. His critically acclaimed science fiction novels, The Genocides, Camp Concentration and 334 are major contributions to the New Wave science fiction movement. In 1996, his book The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and in 1999, Disch won the Nonfiction Hugo for The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of, a meditation on the impact of science fiction on our culture, as well as the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse. Among his other nonfiction work, he wrote theatre and opera criticism for The New York Times, The Nation, and other periodicals. He published several volumes of poetry as Tom Disch." (from Wikipedia)

First American edition. Very good in very good dust jacket.

New York. 1995. March 1995. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0679418806. 303 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Archie Ferguson. keywords: American Literature Science Fiction. DESCRIPTION - In The Priest, Disch gives us a potent, darkly hypnotic, and fiendishly comic novel - a gothic romance like no other. At the center: Father Patrick Bryce, a Catholic priest with a present-day Minneapolis parish - and a pedophile past. He's spent time at a church-run retreat for priests of his persuasion and returned 'rehabilitated': even better equipped to keep his vice active and hidden. Until the blackmail begins. It comes from three different sources (his own bishop being one), and each tops the next in imaginative proposals: Father Pat must head a militant (and probably illegal) anti-abortion campaign; Father Pat must apologize to each of his victims, face-to-face; Father Pat must read, and be ready to discuss, the work of a bizarre cult science fiction writer, and get the face of Satan tattooed on his chest. But the blackmailers and their demands are the least of Father Pat's problems. More dire is his increasingly incontrovertible sense that the nightmares in which he has been leading the life of a thirteenth-century bishop are not dreams at all. And that the Church, rife with corruption and scandal in both eras, is the only realistic sanctuary for him and his doppelganger, Bishop Silvanus de Roquefort, as they move - at once separately and together - through their own centuries-spanning maze of soul-killing horrors toward a distinctly hellish destiny. inventory #25287

State "FIRST AMERICAN EDITION" and 1st printing with full number line. Both book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. Dust jacket in protective mylar wrap. See photos.