Bibliographical Description
87.10.W040: Prager – A Visit from the Footbinder and Other Stories
[rule 97 mm] | A VISIT | FROM THE | FOOTBINDER | and other stories | [rule 97 mm] | Emily Prager | [rule 97 mm] | Vintage Contemporaries | VINTAGE BOOKS A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE | NEW YORK | [rule 97 mm]
96 leaves, pp. [10] 13-43 44 45-190 [4]
Pagination note: Although the first numbered page is “13”, there are only 10 pages (5 leaves) preceding it
First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, October 1987
Contents: π1a author photo with blurbs, π1b blank, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a acknowledgments, π3b blank, π4a table of contents, π4b blank, π5a epigraph, π5b blank, 13-190 A Visit from the Footbinder: 13-43 ‘[rule 97 mm] | A Visit from the Footbinder | [rule 97 mm]’, 44 blank, 45-90 ‘[rule 97 mm] | The Alumnae Bulletin | [rule 97 mm]’, 91-102 ‘[rule 97 mm] | Agoraphobia | [rule 97 mm]’, 103-180 ‘[rule 97 mm] | The Lincoln-Pruitt | Anti-Rape Device: | Memoirs of the | Women’s Combat Army in Vietnam | [rule 97 mm]’, 181-190 ‘[rule 97 mm] | Wrinkled Linen | [rule 97 mm]’; χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Frank Morris; interior author photo by Ralph DePas.
Copyright: © 1982. ISBN: 0-394-75592-8. Price: $6.95. A Visit from the Footbinder was first published by Simon and Schuster 1982.
Copies: JDP 1.1
Blurbs
- (front cover) Splendid and original. – The New York Times
- Emily Prager’s first book of stories, a collection of wicked fantasies and audacious realities, now back in print, leaves no room for casual encounters.
- Prager is a writer of surrealistic vision and biting wit. Quirky and fearless…laced with great gusts of wit and humor. – San Francisco Chronicle
- Suavely heartless in the manner of the early Evelyn Waugh…funny, frightening…a macabre treat. – Harper’s
- Emily Prager’s A Visit from the Footbinder is the funniest, most brash and impressive first book of fiction in recent memory….She is sardonic, yes. Ruthlessly witty and provocative, without a doubt. But she is a gifted storyteller with unerring instincts and a demoniacally clever imagination, one who has only begun to explore the broad range of her gifts. – Chicago Tribune Book World