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Humboldt's Gift
by Bellow, Saul
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670386553
- ISBN 13
- 9780670386550
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 1975. Novel based in part on Bellow's friendship with poet Delmore Schwartz, the model for the title character. Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for this book in 1976; it was also influential in his selection as a Nobel Prize winner that year. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; first edition (first printing), listing no later printings. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in leaf, with Kroch's & Brentano's First Edition Circle bookmark laid in. Hint of wear to book, spine lightly dished; jacket shows some creasing & short tears; paper tanned; no names or marks aside from Bellow's signature.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.
Synopsis
Humboldt's Gift is a novel by Saul Bellow that tells of the balance of art and power in an ever-increasingly materialistic America. The tale is shown through a semi-autobiographical account of Bellow's friendship with a poet, Delmore Schwartz. Humboldt's Gift won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- v0805
- Title
- Humboldt's Gift
- Author
- Bellow, Saul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670386553
- ISBN 13
- 9780670386550
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Literature, Fiction, Modern First Editions, Signed Books
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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