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A Case of Curiosities - 1st Edition/1st Printing
de Kurzweil, Allen
- Usado
- as new
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- As New
- Librería
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library. As New. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Full-Leather. A special first edition/first printing preceding the trade edition in unread As New condition. SIGNED by author Allen Kurzweil; Claude Page is a young mechanical genius in 18th-century France, on the eve of the revolution. He studies under an heretical abbé and apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller in Paris. But his greatest invention--a talking mechanical head--eventually leads to his execution, one more bizarre that Marie Antoinette's. A lusty picture of French society of the time.This outstanding book is bound in genuine leather with raised bands and features gilded, sewn-in pages with a satin marker. Simply superb quality; Franklin Library at its best; 8vo; [xviii], 358, [2] pages; Signed by Author .
Sinopsis
In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abbé, apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller, and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude's greatest device-a talking mechanical head-that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre. Hailed by critics for the shimmering brilliance of its inventions and its uncanny fidelity to the textures of the past, A Case of Curiosities places Allen Kurzweil securely in the ranks of the finest literary artists of our time.
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- Librería
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 33800
- Título
- A Case of Curiosities - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Autor
- Kurzweil, Allen
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Full-Leather
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Edición
- First Edition; First Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Franklin Library
- Lugar de publicación
- Franklin Center, PA
- Fecha de publicación
- 1991
- Palabras clave
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Full-Leather
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction / Historical Fiction;
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