THE BLUE FLOWERS
by Queneau, Raymond
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Atheneum, 1967.. 1967.. Very good. - Octavo, teal cloth in a dust wrapper. The top & bottom edges of the covers and the head & tail of the spine are darkened. There is some light foxing to the dust jacket with a few small stains to the front edge of its front panel. 224 pages. The fore-edge is slightly foxed. Very good. <p>First American edition.<p>Raymond Queneau [1903–1976) was a French novelist, poet, scientist and mathematician, notable for his wit and cynical humor. He was active in the Surrealist movement until 1929. He was co-founder of Ouvroir de littérature potentielle (Oulipo) and from 1956 directed Gallimard's massive publication Encyclopedie de la Pleiade.<p>Translated from the French by Barbara Wright.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31990
- Title
- THE BLUE FLOWERS
- Author
- Queneau, Raymond
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Atheneum, 1967.
- Date Published
- 1967.
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; FICTION; NOVEL; FRENCH AUTHOR; POET; NOVELIST; SCIENTIST; MATHEMATICIAN; RAYMOND QUENEAU; THE BLUE FLOWERS; BARBARA WRIGHT, TRANSLATOR; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 1ST AMERICAN EDITION.
Terms of Sale
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.
About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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