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Eclipse Fever
by Abish, Walter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679418679
- ISBN 13
- 9780679418672
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-242: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1993 335 pgs. Signed by Walter Abish on the title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with vignette present to the front board and titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. While Mexican literary critic Alejandro longs for Mercedes, his estranged and unfaithful wife, Bonnie, the daughter of Mercedes' lover, witnesses a murder, and Preston, an American industrialist, and his wife deal with an unscrupulous art dealer. Seventh book by this award winning writer, a complex story set in modern Mexico, which 'explores the reaches of corruption and the limits of power in business, politics, education.' William Gass called it 'a truly magnificent achievement.' EB; 8.5 X 5.8 X 1.0 inches; 335 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58162
- Title
- Eclipse Fever
- Author
- Abish, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0679418679
- ISBN 13
- 9780679418672
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- E-242
- Date Published
- 1993
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- Tight
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- Title Page
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...