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Paradiso
by Lima, Jose Lezama
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($12.95). Red cloth on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A remarkably fresh copy of the first English translation of the novel originally published in Cuba in 1966. According to the jacket, the novel is "both an archetype and a cosmos of American society; it is as perceptive and psychologically intricate as Proust's view of France, as vigorous and sometimes as corroded as Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8374
- Title
- Paradiso
- Author
- Lima, Jose Lezama
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- Latin American Literature, Latinx Literature, Cuban Literature, Modern Literature, Postmodern Literature
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Based in the far northwest reaches of the Chicago suburbs, Carpetbagger Books specializes in literary fiction and modern firsts. Inventory is updated weekly, if not more frequently, so browse often. If you are after something particular, don't hesitate to communicate: not all inventory is uploaded online.
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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