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Austerlitz
by Sebald, W.G
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
London; (2001): Hamish Hamilton. First Edition. Octavo. 415 pages. The Guardian notes that he is "one of the most exciting, and most myteriously subline of contemporary European authors." In the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England as one of the Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. His strict Calvinist parents erase all hints of his origins but as he becomes an architectural historian, he begins a search which will continue in his retirement to solve the mystery of what happened to him more than half century earlier. A fine copy bound in maroon cloth, spine lettering gilt, in fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket lettered in white and gilt, spine lettered in black and gilt.
Synopsis
W. G. Sebald taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, for thirty years, becoming Professor of European Literature in 1987, and from 1989 to 1994 was the first Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. His three previous books won several international awards, including the L.A. Times Book Award for fiction, the Berlin Literature Prize and the Literatur Nord Prize. W. G. Sebald was killed in a car accident at age 57 in December 2001.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028393
- Title
- Austerlitz
- Author
- Sebald, W.G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London; (2001)
- Keywords
- Kindertransports; Archtectural Historian in Fiction;
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Glossary
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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- 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....
- Cloth
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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