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Humboldt's Gift
by Bellow, Saul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670386553
- ISBN 13
- 9780670386550
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Viking Press, 1975-08-25. First Edition. hardcover. Used - Good. 20x20x20. 1st printing. Some wear. bumped corners. In a Fair jacket. Jacket price-clipped and chipped. Very readable copy.
Synopsis
Humboldt's Gift is a novel by Saul Bellow that tells of the balance of art and power in an ever-increasingly materialistic America. The tale is shown through a semi-autobiographical account of Bellow's friendship with a poet, Delmore Schwartz. Humboldt's Gift won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blind Pig Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24-02-28-st-9956-jm
- Title
- Humboldt's Gift
- Author
- Bellow, Saul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670386553
- ISBN 13
- 9780670386550
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975-08-25
- Size
- 20x20x20
- Keywords
- fc=~
- X weight
- 1 oz
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Blind Pig Books
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- Jacket
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