Auto-da-Fé
by Canetti, Elias
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Stein and Day, 1964. 464 pp. Orange paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine and front board lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Book about fine with slight rubbing at head and tail of spine; jacket clean and bright with some minor edgewear and a small nick to the top front corner, old tape on verso of lower spine. Presents well. The only novel by the Nobel winner. Technically the second American edition, reprinting The Tower of Babel published by Knopf in 1947. Translated by C.V. Wedgwood (Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Triolet Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1989
- Title
- Auto-da-Fé
- Author
- Canetti, Elias
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Stein and Day
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
Terms of Sale
Triolet Rare Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Triolet Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2020
Los Angeles, California
About Triolet Rare Books, ABAA
Triolet Rare Books, member ABAA/ILAB, specializes in twentieth century art and literature with a focus on modernism, livres d'artistes, poetry, and the avant-garde.
Glossary
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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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.