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Jonathan Cape, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1967. 246 pages. This is an ex-Library book. White pictorial dust jacket over Blue cloth. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are clean and bright with a firm binding. Endpapers and page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Tanning to spine and edges. Dust jacket attached to boards and protected by plastic wrapper.
The Boss. [Il Padrone] by Parise, Goffredo. [William Weaver, translator] - 1966
by Parise, Goffredo. [William Weaver, translator]
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The Boss. [Il Padrone]
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1966., 1966. Very Good. 1st American edition ; 246 p. ; 22 cm ; LCCN: 66-19393 ; OCLC: 1378888 ; remainder stamp on endpaper ; price tag on endpaper ; minor tears at bottom of dust jacket ; "...a country boy of twenty enters a city 'commercial firm' (products and activity unknown) to be the right-hand man to Dottor Max, a boss obsessed with morality (aspects of which are naturally found to be the immorality of power). The boy's company friends discuss vague illnesses; Dottor Max marries Minnie who fills the company library with comic books; Lothar, handyman of Dottor Max, gives the boy vitamin injections, after which he contemplates murdering the boss. But when he is gradually demoted for refusing to marry a mongoloid ""ward"" of the boss's mother, he gives up and gives in, thus accepting reality, a place in the firm, a refrigerator, a car... "--Kirkus reports ; VG/VG
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- Publisher New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.
- Date Published 1966
- Keywords grotesque psychological novel milan business control power slavery answered asked bathroom become began boss chaeta chair desk Diabete Diabete's Donald Duck door doorman Dottor Balloon Dottor Max Dottor Saturno Dottoressa Uraza eight thirty employees ever
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The Boss
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Knopf, 1966. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1966. No Edition Remarks. 246 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green and dark blue cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Visible foxing and tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and rubbing to spine. Clipped jacket with visible edge wear and rubbing. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and splitting to joints. Small sticker to the front.
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Boss.
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London:: Jonathan Cape,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. First British edition. Gift inscription (possibly by the author) on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (age darkened along the spine) dust jacket. .
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 246 pages. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Light war to dust jacket. Else a nice, tight copy. Record # 810126
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The Boss
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NY: Knopf, 1966. in NF dustwrapper. This is the first U.S. edition of this book translated from the Italian by William Weaver. The author's second book to be translated in this country.. NF.
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UK: J.Cape. Good. Hardcover. 1967. pp 246 white parts of d/j slightly soiled ink name front fly .
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