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Mouroir : Mirror notes of a Novel
by Breyten Breytenbach,
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine /Nearr Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374213917
- ISBN 13
- 9780374213916
- Seller
-
Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984 . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine /Nearr Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 257 pages, red half-cloth over beige boards. A near fine, clean, hardcover first edition with minimal shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, pages cream white (price sticker mark on the inside front endpaper). In a near-fine lightly worn dust jacket with original price present.
Synopsis
An outspoken human rights activist, Breyten Breytenbach is a poet, painter, memoirist, essayist and novelist. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited around the world. Born in South Africa, he emigrated to Paris in the late ’60s and became deeply involved in the anti-Apartheid movement. Author of All One Horse, A Season in Paradise, The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, Dog Heart, The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution, A Veil of Footsteps, among many others, Breytenbach received the Alan Paton Award for Return to Paradise in 1994 and the prestigious Hertzog Prize for Poetry for Papierblom in 1999 and for Die Windvanger (Windcatcher) in 2008.
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 228
- Title
- Mouroir : Mirror notes of a Novel
- Author
- Breyten Breytenbach,
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Nearr Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374213917
- ISBN 13
- 9780374213916
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- South Africa; Fiction
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About the Seller
Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
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Newmarket, New Hampshire
About Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
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Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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