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A Case of Curiosities
by Kurzweil, Allen
- Used
- Fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket as Issued
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SANDY, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1991. Limited First Edition. Full Leather. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. A handsome brown leather First Edition signed by the author, Allen Kurzweil. The author's first novel which received international critical acclaim. Translated into twelve languages, the book earned literary honors in England, Ireland, Italy and France. In fine unread condition but for the very lightest touches of wear, very minor. With gold-gilt cover designs and page edges, and bound-in silk bookmark. Includes a special message from the author not included in the trade edition. A lovely copy.
Synopsis
In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abbé, apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller, and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude's greatest device-a talking mechanical head-that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre. Hailed by critics for the shimmering brilliance of its inventions and its uncanny fidelity to the textures of the past, A Case of Curiosities places Allen Kurzweil securely in the ranks of the finest literary artists of our time.
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- Bookseller
- Parrish Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3984
- Title
- A Case of Curiosities
- Author
- Kurzweil, Allen
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited First Edition
- Publisher
- Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1991
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About the Seller
Parrish Books
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SANDY, Oregon
About Parrish Books
Parrish Books is a full-time on-line dealer in fine collectible books in business since 2002. With specialities in signed limited editions and many favorite authors including Ray Bradbury, Richard Bach, Tom Clancy, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Edward Gorey and Maurice Sendak. We specialize in exceptional customer service and quality packaging of all orders.
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