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Humboldt's Gift
de Bellow, Saul
- Usado
- as new
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- As New/Not Issued
- Librería
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1983. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, full genuine green leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 462 pages. All edges gilt. Sewn in silk book-mark, marbled paper end-sheets and smyth sewn book block complete this work as a quality Franklin Library production, "privately printed and bound exclusively for subscribers to The Franklin Library of Pulitzer Prize Classics." Illustrated by Barry Shapiro. First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and as new copy. As new. .
Sinopsis
Humboldt's Gift is a novel by Saul Bellow that tells of the balance of art and power in an ever-increasingly materialistic America. The tale is shown through a semi-autobiographical account of Bellow's friendship with a poet, Delmore Schwartz. Humboldt's Gift won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 020980
- Título
- Humboldt's Gift
- Autor
- Bellow, Saul
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo As New
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Not Issued
- Edición
- First Edition Thus
- Editorial
- The Franklin Library
- Lugar de publicación
- Franklin Center, PA
- Fecha de publicación
- 1983
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Palabras clave
- Fiction, Fine Binding, Franklin Press
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Modern Fiction; Fine Binding;
Términos de venta
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Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
Sobre Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
