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The Face of Another
de Abe, Kobo
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine/Near Fine
- Librería
-
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [9], 3-237, [9] pp. Quarter black cloth over grey paper boards with silver lettering and red decorations on the spine and front board; red topstain. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. With fourty-four drawings by Robert Steele Wallace. First printing of the first American edition. Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders. A very attractive copy, basis for the 1966 Japanese film. Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with the top corner of the rear flap clipped.
Sinopsis
Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. In 1948 he received a medical degree from Tokyo Imperial University, but he never practiced medicine. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist, and was also widely known as a dramatist. His novels have earned many literary awards and prizes, and have all been best sellers in Japan. They include The Woman in the Dunes , Kangaroo Notebook , The Ark Sakura , The Face of Another , The Box Man , and The Ruined Map.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 00005992
- Título
- The Face of Another
- Autor
- Abe, Kobo
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First American edition
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1966
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Sobre el vendedor
Evening Star Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2007
Madison, Wisconsin
Sobre Evening Star Books
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