A Cloud on Sand Tapa dura - 1990

Paperback. Very Good.

324 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and faux author's signature in gilt to cover over red boards in original pictorial jacket. Promotional post card laid-in. First American edition. First-time novelist Gabriella De Ferrari's A Cloud on Sand succeeds in giving its audience quality fiction combined with international flair and historical insight. Entertainment Weekly called it "a quietly enthralling masterpiece". Condition: Spine ends rubbed, previous owner's name erased from front end paper else a very good copy in a fine jacket.

New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc. Very Good/Very Good. 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0394551451 Has Pub. Remainder Mark Laid in is the publisher's color promotional postcard for this title. .

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1990. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York, New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition. (First U. S. Edition). Author's First Novel. Hint Of Bumping To The Lower Corners, Else Fine. The Jacket Has Light Surface Wear, Else Fine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 324 pp. One corner is very lightly bumped.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Knopf, 1990-03-17. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.4000 9.3000 6.3000. First edition. Minor wear on the covers, corners, and the edges. May contain some writing and or highlighting within the pages and the covers.

Knopf, 1990-03-17. Hardcover. Good.

New York. 1990. April 1990. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394551451. 325 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration: Oiseau et Tortue. by Francis Picabia, 1926-27, Gouache on paper. 25 3/4 x 19 3/4. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. keywords: Literature Translated Peru Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - At the center of this novel are two women, mother and daughter, locked together by love and combat. It is 1920. On the Italian Riviera, in an immense white villa high above a threadbare fishing village, lives the only woman who has ever married her way out of the village and into luxury. Dora has carnivorous charm and utter elegance. She is ignorant, imperious, volcanic. and frightening. Swathed in velvets and silks, swooping off to Paris or Monte Carlo on mysterious assignations-Only to return to sit in her near-empty rooms by candlelight-she rules in lonely, widowed splendor over her fading kingdom. The prime… Leer más