The Man Without Qualities: Volume I: A Sort of Introduction The Like of it Now Happens (I)
by MUSIL, ROBERT & WILKINS, EITHNE (Trans & Fore) & KAISER, ERNST (Trans & Fore)
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Secker & Warburg 1953. FIRST EDITION, THIS VOL ONLY, octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxxv + 365pp, VG (light to moderate staining to spine & boards, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, minor water staining to base of eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to spine & edges, moderate tanning & staining)
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- Title
- The Man Without Qualities: Volume I: A Sort of Introduction The Like of it Now Happens (I)
- Author
- MUSIL, ROBERT & WILKINS, EITHNE (Trans & Fore) & KAISER, ERNST (Trans & Fore)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg 1953
- Keywords
- modern first editions literature fiction novels Robert Musil volume 1 i one
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