No Place on Earth
by Christa Wolf, tr. Jan van Heurck
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374222983
- ISBN 13
- 9780374222987
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 130 pages. Novel first published in German 1979. Imagined meeting and dialogue of the writers Heinrich von Kleist and Karoline von Günderrode. 8vo, mauve paper over boards with purple-gray cloth quarter and gilt lettering on spine, touch of dust soil to top edge, a little foxing to fore-edge and end papers, in unclipped DJ with 1/2" tear (mended from inside) to front panel at top, flaps slightly curled, handwritten correction of an error in front flap blurb and a note on back flap. Names of former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff written on ffep, her underscoring and/or marginalia - some small marks, some substantial - in pencil on approximately 50 pages and end papers.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AEB-223
- Title
- No Place on Earth
- Author
- Christa Wolf, tr. Jan van Heurck
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374222983
- ISBN 13
- 9780374222987
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- NOVEL, HEINRICH VON KLEIST, KAROLINA GUENDERRODE
- Bookseller catalogs
- German literature in translation;
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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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