Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau, tr. Barbara Wright
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0811207897
- ISBN 13
- 9780811207898
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New Directions, 1981. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 197 pages, with translator's prefaces to the first (1958) and this English editions. Originally published in French, 1947. Theme and variations: one incident told in 99 different styles. Trade paperback, wear to corners, small tears at bottom of spine, wraps had separated and are reglued leaving the first signature very slightly out of alignment, incipient foxing to top edge. Note by former owner on half-title, interior pages bright and unmarked.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AEB-328
- Title
- Exercises in Style
- Author
- Raymond Queneau, tr. Barbara Wright
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0811207897
- ISBN 13
- 9780811207898
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- WRITING, STYLE, PIERRE PHILIPPE, THEME AND VARIATIONS
- Bookseller catalogs
- French literature in translation; Composition and rhetoric;
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