Rape of Honor
by Heinrich, Willi; translated by Sigrid Rock
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Plymouth, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dial Press. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1961. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Light cock, tone with random foxing, light edgewear, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket missing almost half of rear panel, well foxed, edgeworn with chips/tears/creasing, rub, worn. ; First American Edition, First Printing in worn dust jacket. "... Jealous of Rupert's integrity she teases his pride, tears at his indifference to her, and taunts him until he begins to respond. What folllows is an engrossing study in the gradual disintegration of a man's honor. ... Told in Willi Heinrich's brutally matter-of-fact tone, this is a truly astonishing story of twisted lives and violent passions in present day Germany - a society where vice may become a kind of virtue and virtue itself turns vicious." ; 288 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mike's Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15827
- Title
- Rape of Honor
- Author
- Heinrich, Willi; translated by Sigrid Rock
- Illustrator
- Ben Feder dj art
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First US Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Dial Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- German Literature - 20th Century
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About the Seller
Mike's Library
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Plymouth, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...