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Aniara
by Harry Martinson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good book, cloth corners and edges lightly worn; very good dust jacket, chipped spine ends lightly worn and creased, joints
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First U.S. edition. Hardcover, octavo, embossed brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, publisher's black top stain, 132 pp. Very good book, cloth corners and edges lightly worn; very good dust jacket, chipped spine ends lightly worn and creased, joints rubbed, lower cover top edge creased with 1" tear, lower cover top corner torn 1/4", edges and corners to covers lightly worn. The epic poem of a generational spaceship making an escape from earthly cataclysm only to avoid a tragic crash with space trash forcing the vessel on a new uncharted path of existential dilemmas. Martinson won the Nobel prize for literature in 1974. And by 1960 Aniara was adapted into a two act opera by Karl-Birger Blomdahl and libretto by Erik Lindegren. Adapted from the Swedish by Hugh MacDiarmid and Elspeth Harley Schubert. Introduction by Dr. Tord Hall.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2090
- Title
- Aniara
- Author
- Harry Martinson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, octavo, embossed brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, publisher's black top stain, 132 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good book, cloth corners and edges lightly worn; very good dust jacket, chipped spine ends lightly worn and creased, joints
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Aniara, Science Fiction, Harry Martinson, Poetry
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Ridgewood, New York
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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