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PHILOSOPHER OR DOG? A NOVEL (QUINCAS BORBA)
by DE ASSIS, MACHADO..;..WILSON, CLOTILDE TRANS
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0871404966
- ISBN 13
- 9780871404961
- Seller
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Durham, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Noonday Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1954 VERSO. First Edition. Hardcover. 5x8". GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S3.95) DUST JACKET, , SOLID,BRIGHT...dj has minor tape residue to inner flaps..Book has tape residue to top & bottom of hard covers. Clean white endpapers.. and otherwise a nice hard cover copy. Clean text edges, no tears, nor chips to dramatice dust jacket..No names to book.. ; Gold & SILVER titles on spine strip..BLUE hardcovers...white endpapers...BLACK & WHITE TITLES DARK BLUE DUST JACKET, SHOWING "MODERN ART" FACE, TOMBSTONE & MECHANICAL LINES.. ; 271pg pages; In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressions and exuberant insights. A clear forerunner of Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luis Borges, Epitaph for a Small Winner, first published in 1880, is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history .
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- Wonderful Books by Mail
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 138754
- Title
- PHILOSOPHER OR DOG? A NOVEL (QUINCAS BORBA)
- Author
- DE ASSIS, MACHADO..;..WILSON, CLOTILDE TRANS
- Illustrator
- Thompson, GEORGE W. DJ DESIGN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0871404966
- ISBN 13
- 9780871404961
- Publisher
- Noonday Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1954 VERSO
- Keywords
- Fiction Storeis, Essays, Brazil Author, Rio De Janero, Black Author, EpicurEAN EPICURE, Food Cooking
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