Confessions of a Hapless Hedonist. An Inconvenient Discovery About the Meaning of Pleasure
by KOLOWRAT, Ernest
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
N.p.: XLibris Corporation, 2001. First American Edition. Octavo (22cm). Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 482pp. Presentation copy, with author's signed inscription on half-title "to Zeph & Diana, hot off the press / with much appreciation!," undated; also with a laid in ANS transmitting the work. Tight, Near Fine copy in unworn dustwrapper. Czech refugee's memoir of pre- and post-Soviet life, in and out of Czechoslovakia; originally published in Prague in three volumes. The inscribees were presumably Zeph Stewart, long-time professor of Classics at Harvard, and his wife Diana.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40477
- Title
- Confessions of a Hapless Hedonist. An Inconvenient Discovery About the Meaning of Pleasure
- Author
- KOLOWRAT, Ernest
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- XLibris Corporation
- Place of Publication
- N.p.
- Date Published
- 2001
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social History; Communism; Soviet Union; Eastern Europe / Soviet Bloc;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...