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GREAT TOPICS OF THE WORLD: Essays.
by Goldbarth, Albert
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1567920179
- ISBN 13
- 9781567920178
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA, U.S.A.: David R. Godine Publisher, Inc., 1994. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. GREAT TOPICS OF THE WORLD investigates everyday traumas and triumphs--the despairs, delights, and complexities of our lives--and places them in an historic, cosmologic context, in which Vermeer, Leeuwenhock, Amy Lowell, astronomers Kepler and Tycho Brahe, 'Krazy Kat' creator George Herriman, and the Golem-conjuring Rabbi of Prague reenact their legendary dramas. And recurring throughout is the more intimate leitmotif of Goldbarth's own life and that of his family: the parents who inadvertently fed their boy's fascination with the flotsam and jetsam of American pop culture; the grandparents whose emigration from the Old Country was like "landing on Mars"; and the author himself, standing midway between the lore of Middle Europe and the lure of the New World. At its core, GREAT TOPICS is about one of the great topics of the century: the cultural and personal collisions brought about by a world in migration. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. NF46
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4188
- Title
- GREAT TOPICS OF THE WORLD: Essays.
- Author
- Goldbarth, Albert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1567920179
- ISBN 13
- 9781567920178
- Publisher
- David R. Godine Publisher, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- AMERICAN ESSAYS LITERARY COLLECTIONS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed/Inscribed Books;
- Product_type
- 2
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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