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Confessions of Zeno
by Svevo, Italo
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Secker & Warburg, 1962. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. An attractive reprint copy of the Italian writer's third and best-known novel, in the translation by Beryl de Zoete first published in 1930. Here issued as the initial volume in Secker & Warburg's uniform edition of Svevo's works, with a new introductory "Note on Svevo" by Edouard Roditi. Octavo (5.5 x 8 in.); 448pp.; blue textured paper boards, silver spine titles, in dust jacket. Mild bumping to spine ends and top corners, former owner's name and purchase details inked on front free endpaper. Else fine in a near fine jacket, price-clipped, with a roughly 1/3 x 1/2" chip out at the base of spine. Not to be confused with the more common "Further Confessions of Zeno," also issued as part of the same series.
Synopsis
Zeno's Conscience is a novel by Italian businessman and author Italo Svevo. The main character is Zeno Cosini and the book is the fictional character's memoirs that he keeps at the insistence of his psychiatrist. Throughout the novel, we learn about his father, his business, his wife, and his tobacco habit. The novel was self-published in 1923. English translation also published under the title Confessions of Zeno.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dividing Line Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001733
- Title
- Confessions of Zeno
- Author
- Svevo, Italo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Dividing Line Books
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Ridgewood, New York
About Dividing Line Books
Dividing Line Books offers interesting and rare books in the fields of modern literature and counterculture, with developing specialties in artists' books, the psychedelic movement, and other avant-garde streams of the 20th century and beyond. Member IOBA.
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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...
- Uniform Edition
- A collection or series of individual volumes of an author's work bound to match with a uniform size and style. Especially common...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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"...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
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