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Dalkey Archive Press, 1999-04-01. 2nd. paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. Very nice book. Minor wear to cover edges and corners.

Knopf, February 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Used/Very Good. Very good, clean pages, 1st edition. Curl to top front of DJ. Jacket in mylar sleeve

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hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Knopf, 1995. First edition. hardcover. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. A profound meditation on history, on evil, on the living and the dead. A monumental and monumentally original work of fiction.The narrator of the book is a distinguished man in his fifties, William Frederick Kohler, a professor at a Midwestern university. His principle subject, the Third Reich. He has just completed his massive magnum opus, Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany. All that remains to write is an introduction. Kohler sits down to write a self-congratulatory text and finds himself unaccountably blocked. He begins instead to write an entirely other book, another history, that of the historian himself. What he writes is the complete opposite of his clearly argued, causally determined history of the Reich. It is as subjective and private as history is objective and public, as apparently shapeless and stagnant as history is ordered and directrive. It is chaotic, obscure, full of lies and disguises,… Read More

U.S. orders ship with signature confirmation. Feb 1995 stated 1st edition implicit 1st printing with dj in mylar. Residue of store security sticker on inside of dj, white paint stains and inevitable light sunning on edge of cover, else fine. Oversize book – extra shipping charges will apply for international and priority orders as this will not fit into a flat rate envelope.

New York: Knopf, 1995. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Extremely mild rubbing to spine foot, extremely gently bumped front-top corner, other 3 corners extremely gently rubbed, extremely light soiling to front pastedown and front free endpaper, light red stain to fore-edge, very faint soiling to DJ, else Near Fine(-) in Near Fine(+) DJ.. Octavo in black DJ, 651 pages, b&w illus, color diagrams ; 24 cm. College teachers, Psychological Fiction. || After completing the manuscript of a book entitled The Guilt and Innocence of Hitler's Germany, a famous historian who teaches at a university sits down to write the introduction. But instead he finds himself writing on the guilt and innocence of his own life. A look at the craft of resurrecting the past by the author of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Gray wrappers. Slight fading on the spine else near fine with publisher's material stapled to the verso of the front wrapper.

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Knopf, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Signed By Author on half-title page. A good copy of the first edition (stated) in a good jacket (book and jacket have heavy wear from reading; jacket has some chipping; adhesion and ink name to front free endpaper).

Knopf, 1995. First edition, first printing. As new and bright black boards in like dust jacket. The author's masterpiece. An exquisite edition. Gift quality.

Knopf, 1995. First edition. SIGNED LETTER. Fine and bright black boards with silver titles in very close to fine illustrated dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Tipped in is a letter from "Bill Gass" from 1995 to the author Earl Shorris. New and bright all around, gift quality.

Knopf, 1995. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition stated. Sm 4to. 652 pp. One quarter cloth and black paper-covered boards. Silver lettering to the spine. Volume is fine. Jacket has a little bit of crimping at the top of the front panel at the spine fold, else fine. Inscribed to the author Ron Hansen on the tile page: "For Ron, with good luck especially in the movies. William H. Gass." Gass was likely referring to Hansen's novel, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford which was made into a movie starring Brad Pitt. Hansen recently sold many of his books to a Palo Alto bookseller including this one.