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Slowness. Signed copy.
by KUNDERA, Milan, translated by Linda Asher
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: HarperCollins, (1995 text; 1996 for translation). First American edition, advance issue, signed in ink by Kundera at the ffep. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), [4], 164 & [1] pages. Publisher's black paper backed in black cloth lettered in silver on the spine & upper cover, in pictorial slipcase, the front panel die cut to reveal the title below. Issued without dust jacket.
A fine copy in very good or better slipcase with light rubbing along the edges.
The noted author's first book to be originally written in French rather than Czech, here translated to English. Milan Kundera passed away in 2023.
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1795
- Title
- Slowness. Signed copy.
- Author
- KUNDERA, Milan, translated by Linda Asher
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover in slipcase
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1995)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Milan Kundera, Signed, Fiction, Literature, Philosophy, Modernity
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature, Fiction, Poetry; Signed;
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- FFEP
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- Fine
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