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THE OLD AND THE NEW FROM DON QUIXOTE TO KAFKA
by Marthe Robert, translated by Carol Cosman, foreword by Robert Alter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0520025091
- ISBN 13
- 9780520025097
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 5 x 8 in. Brown cloth with gilt spine titles on black. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; one corner bumped, no shelf wear, covers very clean. Binding tight, text unmarked. Previous owner�s name, Peter L. Oppenheimer, on upper front pastedown. Peter L. Oppenheimer was a philosophy professor and the son of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the atomic physicist. DJ is VERY GOOD ; light edge wear, clean but foxed, chipping at spine head and corners. Lit Crit. Stax.
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- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13681
- Title
- THE OLD AND THE NEW FROM DON QUIXOTE TO KAFKA
- Author
- Marthe Robert, translated by Carol Cosman, foreword by Robert Alter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0520025091
- ISBN 13
- 9780520025097
- Publisher
- Berkeley: University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1977
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- 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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