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Doctor Faustus : The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn
by Namm, Thomas
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. Name on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped but very dusty with rubbing/small tears/slight loss to edges and very sunned spine. 510pp. The background of this novel of the entire life story of a great creative musician is a more up to date version of the Faust legend. The musician sells his soul for twenty-four years of musical genius.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8.75 x 5.75 inches.
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- Bookseller
- Godley Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017636
- Title
- Doctor Faustus : The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn
- Author
- Namm, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Fictional Biography, Music, Germany
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography - Performing arts;
- Size
- 8.75 x 5.75 inches
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- First Edition
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