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The Priest: Available Copies

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

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

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

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

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

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

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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.

303 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.

A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

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

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.

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."

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.

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

Dust Jacket protected by removable Brodart cover.

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.

Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 310 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Horror tales, American; Gothic literature; English fiction; United States. 3 Kg.