Jealousy and Medicine
by Choromanski, Michal and Arthurton-Barker, Eileen (transl.)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- very good+: clean, square, tight./very good: age toning/soil, mild shelf wear, NOT clipped ($4.50)
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New Directions, 1964. first US edition. hardcover. very good+: clean, square, tight./very good: age toning/soil, mild shelf wear, NOT clipped ($4.50). 8vo 216pp. from front flap: "Jealousy and Medicine is recognized as the finest novel by one of Poland's outstanding modern writers. First published in 1932, it pioneered new fictional techniques, particularly in a use of distortion and fragmented time sequence which may have been inspired by modern painting. Jealousy and Medicine won the Polish Academy of Literature Prize and has been translated into fifteen languages. This English version by Eileen Arthurton-Barker marks its first publication in the United States. #01028.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 948
- Title
- Jealousy and Medicine
- Author
- Choromanski, Michal and Arthurton-Barker, Eileen (transl.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good+: clean, square, tight.
- Jacket Condition
- very good: age toning/soil, mild shelf wear, NOT clipped ($4.50)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first US edition
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- fiction, polish fiction, first edition, translation
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Matthew's Books LLC
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
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