What’s To Become Of The Boy? or Something To Do With Books
by Boll, Heinrich
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Van Nuys, California, United States
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984; First Edition; 8vo, 82 pages; tan boards, brown cloth spine; gilt titles. Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Boll’s revealing autobiography of his school years in Cologne during the period of Nazi domination. Frontispiece photo portrait plate of the author as a young man. Translated from the original German by Leila Vennewitz. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. Clean, crisp, and sharp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- AARDWOLF Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6348
- Title
- What’s To Become Of The Boy? or Something To Do With Books
- Author
- Boll, Heinrich
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York,
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Heinrich Boll, Germany, German Authors, Nazis, Nobel Laureates, Nobel Prize, Books In German
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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