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A Case of Curiosities (Signed first edition)

A Case of Curiosities (Signed first edition)

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A Case of Curiosities (Signed first edition)

by Kurzweil, Allen

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  • Near Fine
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
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Near Fine/near fine
ISBN 10
0151157936
ISBN 13
9780151157938
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New York: Harcourt, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo, cloth-covered boards in dust jacket. Book is signed by auithor to title page. Book has faintest shelfwear, with contents clean. Dust jacket is very nearly Fine, in protective mylar.

Synopsis

In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abbé, apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller, and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude's greatest device-a talking mechanical head-that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre. Hailed by critics for the shimmering brilliance of its inventions and its uncanny fidelity to the textures of the past, A Case of Curiosities places Allen Kurzweil securely in the ranks of the finest literary artists of our time.

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Title
A Case of Curiosities (Signed first edition)
Author
Kurzweil, Allen
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
near fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First edition
ISBN 10
0151157936
ISBN 13
9780151157938
Publisher
Harcourt
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1992

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Shelfwear
Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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Fine
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