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Ship of Fools
by Porter, Katherine Anne
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, 1962. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Fair Condition. Without dust jacket. Made into a movie by Stanley Kramer and starred Vivien Leigh, Jose Ferrer, and Lee Marvin. Gold full cloth binding with red titles and decoration stamped on spine. Boards darkened a little along edges, a few tiny spots. corners lightly scuffed. Shaken, inner hinge is cracked but binding is tight, backstrap loosened from crash. Rough cut. Text/pages clean, unmarked and untorn. Endpapers in front have been torn off with a half remaining on board. Back endpaper intact, purple, swirl design. Lower text block edge has red scribble. The title of this book is a translation from the German of "Das Narrenschiff", a moral allegory by Sebastian Brant (1458?-1521). Porter took this almost universal image of the ship of this world on its voyage to eternity--and she is on it The story covers a period of twenty-seven days in the year 1931, and the lives and actions of those on board the German freighter-passenger ship that embarks from Veracruz, Mexico, destined for Bremerhaven, Germany. 497 pages. 8.5" x 5.75" . 1962, Little, Brown & Company, Boston and Toronto.
Synopsis
Ship of Fools was published in 1962, but takes place in the summer of 1931, on a cruise ship bound for Germany. It's diverse passengers include a noble Spanish woman, a drunken German lawyer, an American divorcee, and a pair of Catholic priests from Mexico, not to mention the disposable masses who are riding in the steerage. The story is all about the characters, these real, dishonest, selfish people that we all know, and their interactions on this voyage.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027611
- Title
- Ship of Fools
- Author
- Porter, Katherine Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and Toronto
- Date Published
- 1962
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- AMERICAN LITERATURE ALLEGORY
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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