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Down There ( La Bas )
by HUYSMANS Joris Karl
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924 first American edition in this English translation, near fine, light rubbing to cloth, pencil to endpaper, top edge dusted red, dust jacket is unclipped but rubbed to joints and corners with some splitting along the folds and minor edge chipping to spine ends, 317pp, translated by Keene Wallis, dust jacket design by Gropper. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Gropper . 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
Synopsis
Là-Bas is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1891. It is probably Huysmans' most famous work after À rebours. Là-Bas deals with the subject of Satanism in contemporary France and the novel stirred a certain amount of controversy on its first appearance.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007811
- Title
- Down There ( La Bas )
- Author
- HUYSMANS Joris Karl
- Illustrator
- Gropper
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Albert & Charles Boni
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- Decadent French Literature Translated English First English Edition Huysmans Satan Satanism Black Magic Devil Worship Boullan Occult Fiction
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- FICTION LITERATURE & CRITICISM;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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