Silk
by Alessandro Baricco (Author), Guido Waldman (Translator)
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 1860462588
- ISBN 13
- 9781860462580
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About This Item
First U.S. Edition. Second Printing. First English Translation. Silk by Alessandro Baricco (Author), Guido Waldman (Translator). Harvill (1997). As pictured. Fine, as new, unread full cloth hardcover with fine, as new jacket. A sharp little copy. NOT a remainder. Safe, boxed shipping. 3-b
Synopsis
Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin in 1958. He is the author of two previous novels, Castelli di rabbia , which won the Prix Médicis in France and the Selezione Campiello prize in Italy, and Ocean-Sea , which won the Viareggio and Palazzo del Bosco prizes. He has also written essays in the field of musicology. Silk became an immediate bestseller in Italy and has been translated into twenty-seven languages.
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- Bookseller
- Widdershin's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 597
- Title
- Silk
- Author
- Alessandro Baricco (Author), Guido Waldman (Translator)
- Format/Binding
- Full cloth
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition. Second Printing. First English Translation
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1860462588
- ISBN 13
- 9781860462580
- Publisher
- Harvill
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1997
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- Novels;
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