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Hamlet Fables and Other Poems
by Peter Henisch (1943- )
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- Seller
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About This Item
ix+52 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. Translated by Herman Salinger. First edition limited to 300 copies.
Peter Henisch made his first literary attempts after graduating from high school while doing a traineeship at Wiener Arbeiter-Zeitung (AZ), the central organ of the SPÖ. In the following course of studies he took German studies , philosophy , history and psychology . A doctoral project on Ernst Bloch remained unfinished. 1966/1967 he was local editor for AZ.
He has lived as a freelance writer in Vienna, Lower Austria and Tuscany since 1971 and made his first appearance with Hamlet stays. From 1972 on he was literary editor of the magazine of the Theater der Jugend Neue Wege. From 1970 to 1973 he was a member of the "Working Group of Austrian Literature Producers".
The best-known of his works is the novel The Little Figure of My Father (1975; revised 1987 and 2003; filmed in 1979). In it, Henisch deals with his father's past as an official war photographer during the Third Reich.
Condition: Corners bumped, previous owner's initials on front end paper. Jacket lightly foxed and soiled with a small chip to spine heal else very good in a near fine jacket.
Peter Henisch made his first literary attempts after graduating from high school while doing a traineeship at Wiener Arbeiter-Zeitung (AZ), the central organ of the SPÖ. In the following course of studies he took German studies , philosophy , history and psychology . A doctoral project on Ernst Bloch remained unfinished. 1966/1967 he was local editor for AZ.
He has lived as a freelance writer in Vienna, Lower Austria and Tuscany since 1971 and made his first appearance with Hamlet stays. From 1972 on he was literary editor of the magazine of the Theater der Jugend Neue Wege. From 1970 to 1973 he was a member of the "Working Group of Austrian Literature Producers".
The best-known of his works is the novel The Little Figure of My Father (1975; revised 1987 and 2003; filmed in 1979). In it, Henisch deals with his father's past as an official war photographer during the Third Reich.
Condition: Corners bumped, previous owner's initials on front end paper. Jacket lightly foxed and soiled with a small chip to spine heal else very good in a near fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS007607
- Title
- Hamlet Fables and Other Poems
- Author
- Peter Henisch (1943- )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Charioteer Press
- Place of Publication
- Washington, DC
- Date Published
- 1980
- Pages
- ix+52 pages
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- POETRY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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