Gargantua and Pantagruel
de Rabelais, Francois
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine/Good
- Librería
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
The Modern Library, 1928. First Balloon ML Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Duodecimo. Introduction by Donald Douglas. Green gilt balloon cloth with 'Complete List of Modern library Titles' on version of jacket, single date on copyright page and ad on back. 4 small (1/8""-1/4"") chips along spine edges; rear flap split along fore-edge; 1/2"" chip to bottom of jacket spine not affecting text; bottom rear jacket spine corner, else a clean, bright and whole jacket protected by the Brodart jacket cover. Book is fine and unmarked. Very scarce in the dust jacket.
Sinopsis
A masterly new translation of Rabelais’s robust scatalogical comedy Parodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and often obscene humor. Gargantua depicts a young giant who becomes a cultured Christian knight. Pantagruel portrays Gargantua’s bookish son who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided by wisdom and by his idiotic, self-loving companion, Panurge.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Alba's Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- BN018837
- Título
- Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Autor
- Rabelais, Francois
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Balloon ML Edition
- Editorial
- The Modern Library
- Fecha de publicación
- 1928
- Tamaño
- Duodecimo
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/ She enjoyed hearing the attempts. Her father's book business, Bibliodisia, was actually pronounced Biblio-DEE-zhee-uh. "It's a whole books and sex thing," she'd explain. "No, no, not books ABOUT sex. Books so awesome you want them like sex. Biblio plus aphrodisia equals Bibliodisia -- get it?" / Some did, some didn't.
/ Either way, her dad built a musty little empire with a sexy, funny, brilliant, and hard-to-pronounce name that boasted membership in the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association (MWABA) and exhibited at Chicago book fairs such as the famed Printer's Row. / The way he puts it:
"OUR STOCK IS VARIED AND OF HIGH QUALITY, COMPRISED MAINLY OF HARDCOVER FIRST EDITIONS IN THE BEST AVAILABLE CONDITION FOR THEIR AGE. OUR PRICES VARY AND ARE CONSISTENTLY LOWER THAN WHAT YOU SEE ELSEWHERE, AND WE ARE HAPPY TO CONSIDER REASONABLE OFFERS FOR OUR HIGHER-PRICED BOOKS." (He's hard-of-hearing. Also, Cuban. Alba is Cuban too so she can make that joke.)
/ When he says "our" he means himself, his wife, and his two daughters. It has grown more and more into a family business every year, and now he's nearly ready to hand the reins over to one of his daughters. (Don't worry, the other one's a school teacher.) On Biblio, Alba manages Bibliodisia's inventory and sales under the considerably less sexy, funny, brilliant and hard-to-pronounce business name of Alba's Books.
/ And so another bookseller gets her wings. / The logo's a skyline bookshelf 'cause she's so the big city girl.
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