Speculations about Jakob
by Johnson, Uwe
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Translated by Ursule Molinaro. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, clipped, lightly toned, foxed at the back flap and panel. Quarter black cloth with marbled paper on the boards, bumped at the corners. Square and firmly bound, soiled top edge, clean internally. The first appearance of Johnson's work in English, this being his debut novel about an East German railroad worker who "becomes enmeshed in a plot by a Soviet agent to recruit for Soviet espionage a German girl working for NATO.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7096
- Title
- Speculations about Jakob
- Author
- Johnson, Uwe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- German Literature, European Literature, Modern Literature, Cold War, Prize Novel, Debut, 20th Century Literature, Communism, Politics
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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Woodstock, Illinois
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Foxed
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- Jacket
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.