The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel by Robert Alter - 1999-09-01

W. W. Norton & Company, 1999-09. Hardcover. Used: Good.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1999. Hardcover. Good. 410p. A 1/4 blue hardcover book in very good condition. Ex-library; original binding. Label on spine. Labels, stamps, and cutout pasted jacket panels on endpapers. Text clean and binding tight.

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1999-09-01. Hardcover. Good. Ships Out Tomorrow!

New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 410 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very light normal wear to jacket edges, fading/staining to inside jacket edges. Blue cloth covers in good shape, hinges show some cracking between pages 114-115 and pages 256-257. Clean copy. Record # 2231171

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc. Very Good. Hardcover. 1999. 410 pages. .

Hardback. Very Good.

New York and London: W W Norton & Company, Inc, 1999. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Black and white map. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Bound in quarter red paper with blue paper boards. Cover is plain with silver foil lettering on the spine. Review; "There are countless good reasons to read The David Story, Robert Alter's new translation of the story of King David (beginning in I Samuel and ending in I Kings 2). In the book's introduction, Alter contends that the story of David is "probably the greatest single narrative representation in antiquity of a human life evolving by slow stages through time, shaped and altered by the pressures of political life, public institutions, family, the impulses of body and spirit, the eventual sad decay of the flesh. It also provides the most unflinching insight into the cruel processes of history and into human behavior warped by the pursuit of power." Alter's translation is more literal than the King James version, which makes… Read More

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1999. hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. clean well kept hardcover copy with dust jacket, price tag uncut no markings, stickers or stains. fast shipping with tracking number.

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1999-09-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!