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Vathek
de Beckford, William
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Librería
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Sherman Oaks, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
The Nonesuch press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1929. Reprint. Hardcover. 1/4 parchment spine over paper, gilt cover & spine lettering. Marbled endpapers. Color illust. Heavy wear to bottom corners. Binding tight and inner pages unmarked. Deckled page edges. From the estate of Dr. Oscar Janiger. ; "Written in 1782 by the near-legendary hedonist William Beckford, Vathek was the first Oriental-Gothic horror novel in English literature. It tells the story of Vathek, the debauched and pleasure-seeking ninth Caliph of the Abassides, who decides to build a great tower to "penetrate the secrets of heaven." .
Sinopsis
Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Thomas Beckford. It was composed in French beginning in 1782, and then translated into English by Reverend Samuel Henley in which form it was first published in 1786 without Beckford's name as An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript, claiming to be translated directly from Arabic. The first French edition was published in 1787.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Books On The Boulevard
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 44868
- Título
- Vathek
- Autor
- Beckford, William
- Ilustrador
- Marion V. Dorn
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edición
- Reprint
- Editorial
- The Nonesuch press
- Fecha de publicación
- 1929
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature;
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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...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
