PEN, SWORD, CAMISOLE: a fable to kindle a hope. Translated by Helen R. Lane by AMADO, Jorge - 1985

Godine Publisher, David R., 1985. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Godine Publisher, David R., 1985. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

David R. Godine, 1985-02. Hardcover. Good.

David R. Godine. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

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David R. Godine, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [12], 274, [2] pages. Novelistic 'fable', set in Rio de Janeiro in the 1940's; originally published in Brazil in 1980 under title: Farda, Fardao, Camisola de Dormir. Translated by Helen R. Lane. Publisher on jacket spine: Godine.

New York: Godine, 1985. 274pp. Soiling edges, wear boards, DJ: chipping extremities, rubbing, light soiling.. 1st U. S.. Hb. VG-/G+.

David R. Godine, February 1985. First Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good Dustjacket. First Edition. DJ in mylar. Light soiling and shelfwear to DJ. Light soiling and shelfwear to covers. Textblock lightly soiled. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.

Boston. 1985. David Godine. 1st American Edition. Slightly Discoloration at Front Endpaper Near Bottom Spine, Otherwise Good in Worn Dustjacket. 0879235527. Translated from the Portuguese by Helen R. Lane. 276 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by James Steinberg. keywords: Literature Translated Brazil Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - It is 1940. In Rio de Janeiro, a crisis is brewing. The brilliant womanizing poet, Antonio Bruno, has just died, and his seat in the Brazilian Academy of Letters is vacant. Who will replace him? Colonel Agnaldo Sampaio Pereira, chief of security of the New State Dictatorship, who welcomed Nazi control with unqualified joy, resolves it shall be he. But he does not count on the resistance organized by two intrepid octogenarians who rally to their standard a powerful group as determined to keep the colonel out of the Academy as he is to get in. Thus battle is engaged, in which the international forces of Nazism and the national forces of reaction and totalitarianism… Read More

Boston. 1985. David Godine. 1st American Edition. Spine Very Slightly Cocked, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0879235527. Translated from the Portuguese by Helen R. Lane. 276 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by James Steinberg. keywords: Literature Translated Brazil Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - It is 1940. In Rio de Janeiro, a crisis is brewing. The brilliant womanizing poet, Antonio Bruno, has just died, and his seat in the Brazilian Academy of Letters is vacant. Who will replace him? Colonel Agnaldo Sampaio Pereira, chief of security of the New State Dictatorship, who welcomed Nazi control with unqualified joy, resolves it shall be he. But he does not count on the resistance organized by two intrepid octogenarians who rally to their standard a powerful group as determined to keep the colonel out of the Academy as he is to get in. Thus battle is engaged, in which the international forces of Nazism and the national forces of reaction and totalitarianism unite against two old men and… Read More