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Allegro Postillions (Black Swan)
Da: Greener Books, London, Regno Unito
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Paperback. Condizione: Used; Very Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books. Codice articolo 4912086
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Allegro Postillions
Editore:
Corgi Books, London, UK, 1985
ISBN 10: 0552991333
ISBN 13: 9780552991339
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Paperback
Da: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, Regno Unito
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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 123 pages. Light wear to covers' corners, light yellowing to page-edges o/w a very clean, very tidy copy. Codice articolo 022316
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Allegro Postillions.
Editore:
Black Swan, London, UK, 1985
ISBN 10: 0552991333
ISBN 13: 9780552991339
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Paperback
Prima edizione
Da: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
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Paperback. First Edition Thus (1985). Very Good+ to Near Fine in Wraps: shows the mildest rubbing to wrapper covers; a small scar at the middle of the front panel, where a sticker has been removed; two pages creased right at the upper tip; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a couple of minor, imperfections, one of them quite noticeable. Bright and Clean. Corners Sharp. Close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.75 x 5 x 0.3 inches), 123 pages. Language: English. Weight: 4.5 ounces. First published in 1983 by Salamander Press. Trade Paperback. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial and the Hawtdhornden Prizes. This short collection of four short stories is connected by a theme of human littleness, provincialness, and self-deception. Music, art, and Italy are perhaps more basic links between the tales. Each of the stories features flawed human beings. The stories explore the relationships between people, exposing self-centered fantasies and delusions while at the same time showing the beauty of the human capacity to idealize and dream. The human pursuit of celebrity and celebrity-worship and the distance between celebrity and artistry are other themes that occur throughout the volume as well. Keates has mastered both the first-person and third-person narrative style. The stories also feature several homosexual characters and explores the problems of love both heterosexual and homosexual. First Edition Thus (1985). First published in 1983 by Salamander Press. Codice articolo 54810
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Allegro Postillions
Editore:
Black Swan, Ealing London, 1985
ISBN 10: 0552991333
ISBN 13: 9780552991339
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Soft cover
Prima edizione
Da: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First paperback edition. 123pp. First published in 1983; this copy the first Black Swan printing, 1985. Glossy illustrated wrappers with large front cover watercolor; inside front cover is full page, black and white photo-portrait of author, whose book here won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. A few flecks of glossy surface have been lost to lettering on spine (all words and individual letters still perfectly readable); an ISBN/price sticker superimposed upon the printed counterpart has been removed, with small bits of glossy surface scraped away, leaving printed ISBN difficult to read and two other numbers diminished, along with tiny bits of original bar code, else book is Fine: tight binding, corners sharp; no previous owner names. Clean text. Codice articolo 000536
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