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The Neverending Story
by Michael Ende
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0385176228
- ISBN 13
- 9780385176224
- Seller
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Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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About This Item
First edition in English. Octavo. Hardcover with red cloth to boards gilt lettering to spine. Title impressed in decorative shield to front board. Marbled endpapers. Translated by Ralph Mannheim. Illustrated by Roswitha Quadflieg. 396pp. Doubleday (New York), 1983. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Confition: Very Good+. Tiny chip to head of dust jacket at spine. Minor shelfwear. Price-clipped. A truly beautiful volume, text is in green and red throughout with medieval style illuminations to chapter openings.
The classic tale of a boy whose immersion in literature draws him into a land of magic and adventure. A well worn premiss that proves anything but tired in this complex and profound book. As much a journey through the ambiguities of childhood and maturity, good and evil, reality and fantasy as a journey through a world of fantastic creatures. Inspired the classic film.
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Synopsis
The Neverending Story is a German fantasy novel by Michael Ende, first published in 1979 under the title Die unendliche Geschichte. The standard English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was first published in 1983. The novel was later adapted into several films. The majority of the story takes place in the parallel world of Fantastica (Phantásien in the original German version; referred to as Fantasia in the films), a world being destroyed by the Nothing, which represents and constitutes people's lack of imagination in the real world. The first protagonist is a young warrior, who is asked by the sick Empress to set off and find the cure for their world. The other protagonist is a boy from the real world, a reader of the novel with the same title, for whom the story gradually becomes more and more realistic. -
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Reviews
On Apr 2 2013, Fireflower537 said:
This is one of my favorite books. It is as strange as it is wonderful. A boy finds a book and halfway through the story he becomes a character in the book. This is a very clever and beautiful story.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quinn Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0004
- Title
- The Neverending Story
- Author
- Michael Ende
- Illustrator
- Roswitha Quadflieg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with red cloth to boards gilt lettering to spine. Title impressed in decorative shield to front board.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition in English
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385176228
- ISBN 13
- 9780385176224
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Pages
- 396
- Size
- Octavo. 146x216x33mm
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quinn Rare Books
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Dublin, Dublin
About Quinn Rare Books
We specialise in rare and out of print books of Irish interest. We are book collectors ourselves and strive to offer buyers the best value for the highest quality books.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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