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Baltasar and Blimunda
by Saramago, Jose
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very good/good
- ISBN 10
- 0224025228
- ISBN 13
- 9780224025225
- Seller
-
Paris, France
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo. Hardcover. Very good/good. green cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket unclipped, 336 pp, first UK edition, inscribed by Saramago to cinematographer Ned Burgess (dated 11.1.2003) on the half title page, light wear to the dust jacket at corners, small stain to rear flap, light soiling to top edge
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Synopsis
Baltasar and Blimunda is a novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago. It is a love story set in the 18th century with the construction of the Convent of Mafra, now one of Portugal's chief tourist attractions, as a background. Two young lovers interact naturally with historical characters including the composer and harpsichordist Domenico Scarlatti and the priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão, recognized today as an aviation pioneer, all in the shadow of the Inquisition.
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- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 92150
- Title
- Baltasar and Blimunda
- Author
- Saramago, Jose
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo
- ISBN 10
- 0224025228
- ISBN 13
- 9780224025225
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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- Title Page
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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