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The Neverending Story
by Michael Ende
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
he Neverending Story by Michael Ende (Die endliche Geschichte the original title in German) Hardcover First US Edition - First Printing New York: Knopf US, 1983. states "First Edition" on copyright page. $15.95 cover price. Text in green and red with illustrations interspersed throughout.
Fine in Near Fine Dust jacket. A notoriously difficult book to find in nearly perfect jacket. The book itself is essentially fine with sharp corners and clean boards, just a hint of toning to the text-block. This jacket is better than most copies I've seen, NO chips, and NO fading to the spine but typical rubbing at the edges, some crinkling to the top spine, and closed slits at the upper edges. Definitely a nice copy.
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Synopsis
The Neverending Story is a German fantasy novel by Michael Ende, first published in 1979 under the title Die unendliche Geschichte. The standard English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was first published in 1983. The novel was later adapted into several films. The majority of the story takes place in the parallel world of Fantastica (Phantásien in the original German version; referred to as Fantasia in the films), a world being destroyed by the Nothing, which represents and constitutes people's lack of imagination in the real world. The first protagonist is a young warrior, who is asked by the sick Empress to set off and find the cure for their world. The other protagonist is a boy from the real world, a reader of the novel with the same title, for whom the story gradually becomes more and more realistic. -
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Reviews
On Apr 2 2013, Fireflower537 said:
This is one of my favorite books. It is as strange as it is wonderful. A boy finds a book and halfway through the story he becomes a character in the book. This is a very clever and beautiful story.
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Details
- Bookseller
- TristanBooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- NeverendingStoryFNF
- Title
- The Neverending Story
- Author
- Michael Ende
- Illustrator
- Roswitha Quadflieg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition - First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday US
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Pages
- 396
- Size
- octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Oakland, California
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Tristan Books offers modern first editions of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Literature, and Children s, some signed limited editions and small press books as well as a few antiquarian books printed circa 1540-1900.
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