A Few Last Words

Overview:

  • Title: A Few Last Words
  • Author: James Sallis
  • Year: 1970
  • ISBN-10:
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • Price: $4.95
  • Pages: 226
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: A Few Last Words
  • Notes:
    • "First Printing" stated on the copyright page.
    • Cover gives the subtitle A Parable and a Prophecy, but not on the title page, nor anywhere else in the book.
    • "Jacket design by Colos" printed on the back flap of the dust jacket.
    • "60673" printed at the bottom on the back of the dustjacket.
    • Table of contents gives the first story ("JIM AND MARY G") and the last ("A FEW LAST WORDS") in capital letters, and divides the remaining stories into five roman-numeraled parts. Part I is pages 21 - 82; Part II is pages 83 - 116; Part III is pages 117 - 154; Part IV is pages 155 - 178 and consists only of the story "Occasions" which is further divided into 15 sections (but not on the contents page); and Part V is pages 179 - 204.
    • Exact publication date from Kirkus Reviews