Humboldt's Gift
by Saul Bellow
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-/worn
- ISBN 10
- 0670386553
- ISBN 13
- 9780670386550
- Seller
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Burbank, California, United States
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About This Item
pro: very solid clean copy, no folds or markings, no damage to pages or interior, very much intact, although externally has some wear, of this First Edition First Printing, for more info on what constitutes a first first of this book: http://www.pprize.com/BookDetail.php/Humboldt-Gift)
con: light wear to exterior of boards and dust jacket worn through at edges (see pictures). visible shelf wear to dj and ext. boards.
con: light wear to exterior of boards and dust jacket worn through at edges (see pictures). visible shelf wear to dj and ext. boards.
Synopsis
Humboldt's Gift is a novel by Saul Bellow that tells of the balance of art and power in an ever-increasingly materialistic America. The tale is shown through a semi-autobiographical account of Bellow's friendship with a poet, Delmore Schwartz. Humboldt's Gift won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Strange Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- bellowhumbolt1
- Title
- Humboldt's Gift
- Author
- Saul Bellow
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- worn
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670386553
- ISBN 13
- 9780670386550
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction Firsts;
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