La Belle Captive by Robbe-Grillet, Alain, and Magritte, Rene - 1995

University of California Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. First edition, 1995. Large quarto, cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 230 pp., heavily illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good+ dust jacket, a bit of discoloration to the page-edges, light rubbing to the edges of the book's covers, wear to the tips of the dust jacket including creasing, tearing, and a bit of loss. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First edition, 1995. Large quarto, cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 230 pp., heavily illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, a bit of discoloration to the page-edges. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.

University of California Press, 1995-03-29. Hardcover. Good.

University Of California Press, Berkeley, 1995. First edition. Condition: Fine books in near fine dust jacket, dust jacket has light edge wear. This is a large, heavy book and may require additional postage."It begins with a stone falling, in the silence, vertically, immobile. It is falling from a great height, a meteor, a massive, compact, oblong block of rock, like a giant egg with a pocked, uneven surface."The opening sentence of "La Belle Captive" introduces a dreamworld where the conventions of the traditional novel have been overthrown. Objects move through space without regard to laws of nature, characters move through the text in a maddening complex of events.Originally published in 1975, Alain Robbe-Grillet's "nouveau roman" is illustrated with 77 paintings by Rene Magritte. Robbe-Grillet uses Magritte's paintings as pretexts for the novel, letting them generate themes for an imaginary discourse that parallels their imagery, glosses them, contradicts them. Simultaneously, he comments on… Read More

Fine. excellent condition inside and out

BERKELEY: CALIFORNIA.. Fine. 1995. First Edition. 0520059166 . First American Edition. Fine in a fine dj. 4to. (230pp.) 77 plates. .

University of California Press, 1995-03-29. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!