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The Book of Resemblances (vol 2): Intimations / The Desert
by Edmond Jabes
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine, trace soiling to edges of boards/Near Fine jacket, slight sunning to spine
- ISBN 10
- 0819552402
- ISBN 13
- 9780819552402
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover octavo, black cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine, 114 pp. Near Fine, trace soiling to edges of boards/Near Fine jacket, slight sunning to spine. The second installment of Jabes' Book of Resemblances. Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 685
- Title
- The Book of Resemblances (vol 2): Intimations / The Desert
- Author
- Edmond Jabes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover octavo, black cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine, 114 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine, trace soiling to edges of boards
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine jacket, slight sunning to spine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0819552402
- ISBN 13
- 9780819552402
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Place of Publication
- Hanover
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Judaism, Jewish, Mysticism, Philosophy, Desert, Poetry
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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