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The Call of the Toad. (SIGNED).
por Grass, Gunter
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Assinado
- first
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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Sobre este item
London; Secker and Warburg. 1995., 1995. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Octavo, pp. [6], 248. Ivory white publishers' cloth over boards with gilt spine titles. Original illustrated publishers' dust-jacket in ivory and scarlet. Corners and spine tips slightly bumped. Tight, clean pages with no ownership marks. Author's signature to half-title. Bright clean jacket, not price clipped. Near Fine in Near Fine. A signed first edition by arguably one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. A synchronous meeting between two widowers, a West-German art historian specialising in gravestones and a polish art restorer, leads to a well intentioned project to create a "cemetery of reconciliation". A biting satire set against the political backdrop of 1980s Gdansk.
Sinopse
A German art historian and a Polish art restorer find adventure and love in the cemetery business. Their vision is to offer plots in Gdansk to those Germans who had been exiled after World War II. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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- Livreiro
- Keel Row Books
(GB)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 8828
- Título
- The Call of the Toad. (SIGNED).
- Autor
- Grass, Gunter
- Formato/Encadernação
- Hard Cover
- Estado do livro
- Usado
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- London; Secker and Warburg. 1995.
- Data de publicação
- 1995
- Palavras-chave
- Fiction
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Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
