PEN, SWORD, CAMISOLE: A Fable to Kindle a Hope.
by Amado, Jorge
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a like dustjacket (very light foxing to edges of textblock, appears unread)/like
- ISBN 10
- 0879235527
- ISBN 13
- 9780879235529
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston & New York:: David R. Godine / Avon Books,, (1985). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (very light foxing to edges of textblock, appears unread). First US printing. A novel set in 1940 by this Brazilian writer - The "brilliant womanizing poet Antonio Bruno" has died and his seat in the Brazilian Academy of Letters is now vacant - a colonel who had welcomed Nazi control is sure it should be his, but arrayed against him are two determined octagenarians and four remarkable women. Translated from the Portuguese by Helen R. Lane. 274 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86067
- Title
- PEN, SWORD, CAMISOLE: A Fable to Kindle a Hope.
- Author
- Amado, Jorge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket (very light foxing to edges of textblock, appears unread)
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0879235527
- ISBN 13
- 9780879235529
- Publisher
- David R. Godine / Avon Books,
- Place of Publication
- Boston & New York:
- Date Published
- (1985)
- Keywords
- brazil, literature in translation, historical fiction,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Latin American Literature and History;
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