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Serpent Lily A Novella, with a Manifesto: "The Sickness of the Age"
by Kazantzakis, Nikos & Theodora Vasils (trans. & intro.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0520038851
- ISBN 13
- 9780520038851
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
University of California Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1992. Hardback. 0520038851 . Dust jacket lightly age-toned at top and bottom edges, a touch sunned down spine; Black cloth boards, a touch rubbed toward top-edges, gilt lettering bright; Pages lightly age-toned, a touch dusty on top-edge, previous owner's signature on ffep, no annotation; Newspaper review clipping laid in front [TLS, July 4th 1980: 749]; Binding tight. This novella, Kazantzakis's first published work, tells of an artist whose infatuation with his model becomes passion, and then a torment from which only murder can release him. ; 5.75 x 8.75"; 124 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Walden Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53251
- Title
- Serpent Lily A Novella, with a Manifesto: "The Sickness of the Age"
- Author
- Kazantzakis, Nikos & Theodora Vasils (trans. & intro.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0520038851
- ISBN 13
- 9780520038851
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- 0520038851
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