The Book of Questions: Yael, Elya, Aely [IV, V, VI]
by Edmond Jabes
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine, tight square binding, sharp corners, light soiling to top of text block, small stain to rear free endpaper, else fine/Fine unclipped jacket, trace edgewear.
- ISBN 10
- 0819550868
- ISBN 13
- 9780819550866
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover octavo, green cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine, 337 pp. Publisher's promotional material laid in. Near Fine, tight square binding, sharp corners, light soiling to top of text block, small stain to rear free endpaper, else fine./Fine unclipped jacket, trace edgewear.. Jacket Design by Joyce Kachergis Book Design & Production.. The last three books of Jabes' best-known work, the Book of Questions, collected in one volume and masterfully translated by poet Rosmarie Waldrop.
Synopsis
Translation of: Le livre de Yukel, and Le retour au livre.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 691
- Title
- The Book of Questions: Yael, Elya, Aely [IV, V, VI]
- Author
- Edmond Jabes
- Illustrator
- Jacket Design by Joyce Kachergis Book Design & Production.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover octavo, green cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine, 337 pp. Publisher's promotional material laid in
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine, tight square binding, sharp corners, light soiling to top of text block, small stain to rear free endpaper, else fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine unclipped jacket, trace edgewear.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0819550868
- ISBN 13
- 9780819550866
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Place of Publication
- Middletown, CT
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Judaism, Jewish, Holocaust
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