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Saul Bellow
Herzog / Henderson the Rain King / The Adventures of Augie March
<p>Viking 1964 Three book club editions of Saul Bellow titles. Green and orange title and design on green cloth. All books about fine with deckled fore edge and missing publisher's stain to top edge of text block. Herzog gutter code 17 M 352 pages Henderson the Rain King gutter code 17 M 320 pages The Adventures of Augie March gutter code 16 M 607 pages. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/None.</p> Viking hardcover
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Saul Bellow
Herzog Danish Edition
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 8711887583.G ISBN : 8711887583 9788711887585
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Saul Bellow
Herzog Em Portugues do Brasil
Companhia Das Letras. New. Companhia Das Letras unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 9788535919264-11-31117
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Saul Bellow
Herzog Unabridged
cassette. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 0786103434.G ISBN : 0786103434 9780786103430
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Saul Bellow
Herzog. SPIEGEL-Edition Band 13 by Bellow Saul; Hasenclever Walter
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 3877630138.G ISBN : 3877630138 9783877630136
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Saul Bellow
Herzog: Text and Criticism Viking Critical Library
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 0670018104.G ISBN : 0670018104 9780670018109
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Saul Bellow
Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories Signed
New York: Harper & Row 1984. Very Good /Very Good . New York: Harper & Row 1984. Stated First Edition. Octavo 24cm; 294pp. Publisher's dust jacket with $15.95 price intact; boards bound in blue cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Dust jacket ever-so-slightly bumped. Boards likewise lightly bumped and a bit faded along top and bottom edge. Binding sound. Textblock and interior pages clean; endsheets a bit toned. Altogether Very Good or better. Signed without inscription by the author on first free endsheet. Harper & Row unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 38843 ISBN : 006015179X 9780060151799
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Saul Bellow
Him With His Foot in His Mouth
<p>Dust jacket is in excellent condition with the exception of slight crimp and small mark at the top of the spine. THe book itself is excellent clean crisp and tight no markings and signed by the author.</p> Harper & Row hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 55 ISBN : 006015179X 9780060151799
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Saul Bellow
Him with His Foot in His Mouth
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 0141195746.G ISBN : 0141195746 9780141195742
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Saul Bellow
Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories
Pocket 1985-10-01. Mass Market Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Pocket paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : Q-0671552473 ISBN : 0671552473 9780671552473
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Saul Bellow
Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories
New York: Harper and Row 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed on first free end paper. Nice copy. Harper and Row hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 6124
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Saul Bellow
Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories
Harper & Row 1984 Book. As New. Soft cover. F. As New. First Edition. Galley/Proof. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0-06-015179-X. Harper & Row, 1984 Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 000231 ISBN : 006015179X 9780060151799
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Saul Bellow
HUMBOLDT'S GIFT; Franklin Library
Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Barry Shapiro. Very Good in boards. Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. Decorated endsheets. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. Small stain on bottom text block edge.; First Franklin Library Edition. Franklin Library hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 312866
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Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift Signed First Edition
<p>First Edition/First Printing; A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author to the 2nd free paper with provenance for the signing laid in bookmark from the Kroch's & Brentano's First Editions Circle. An excellent copy of this novel winner of the Pulitzer Prize and propelling Bellow to the Nobel Prize for Literature; uncommon signed and with provenance. This copy is in near fine condition showing only some mild foxing to the page edges and a faint scratch to the front board and spine; housed in a crisp and bright near fine dust jacket that shows only moderate sunning to the spine common for the title and light rubbing to the edges. A highly presentable and collectible copy of this important work of 20th Century literature. Not remaindered not price-clipped not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.</p> The Viking Press hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 3918 ISBN : 0670386553 9780670386550
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Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift Signed First Edition
New York: Viking 1975. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the first blank. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. <br /> <br /> Some faint foxing to the cloth and top page edges overall Very Good plus in a Very Good plus lightly spine-toned dust jacket. Viking unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 169442 ISBN : 0670386553 9780670386550
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Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift
The Viking Press 1975. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Saul Bellow</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> The Viking Press</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780670386550</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1975</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 487</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Charlie Citrine suffering from steadily worsening troubles with women career and life in general receives unexpected aid and comfort in the form of a belated bequest from his onetime friend and mentor the poet Von Humboldt Fleisher</p> The Viking Press hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 9780670386550-2025 ISBN : 0670386553 9780670386550
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Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift
The Viking Press 1975. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Saul Bellow</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> The Viking Press</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780670386550</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1975</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 487</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Charlie Citrine suffering from steadily worsening troubles with women career and life in general receives unexpected aid and comfort in the form of a belated bequest from his onetime friend and mentor the poet Von Humboldt Fleisher</p> The Viking Press hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 9780670386550-2025 ISBN : 0670386553 9780670386550
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Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift
<p>The Viking Press New York 1975. First Edition 1st printing. Signed. Very Good two-tone yellow and marigold/light orange quarter gold cloth spine over yellow paper. Dust jacket unclipped $10.00 with 0875 on bottom of front flap. Minor soling and edgewear to jacket. See Photos. Jacket design by Mel Williamson. The author won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction which subsequently secured his Nobel Prize in Literature later that same year.</p> The Viking Press hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 10813
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Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift
Viking Press 1975. First Edition. First Printing. VG w/red remainder mark at top and bottom edges. In VG DJ w/3" tear and soiling. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976. Set in mid-20th century Chicago the story follows the journey of Charlie Citrine a struggling writer and his mentor the eccentric poet Von Humboldt Fleisher. Viking Press unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 1186 ISBN : 9000011639 9789000011636
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Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift
Viking 1975. First Edition. First Printing Very good in bright yellow boards. Price-clipped dust jacket has small brown stain otherwise near fine very nice copy. Viking unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 1187 ISBN : 9000034124 9789000034123
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Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift
New York: The Viking Press 1975. First. Very Good/Very Good. First edition with no subsequent printings listed on copyright. In original unclipped jacket in mylar. Old price sticker on back and a closed tear to front top edge about 1 inch. Purple cloth over boards with yellow vcloth spine. Blacl and red on spine. Some spotting to edges and pencil note on ffep. The interior is clean clear crisp and in nearly unread condition. <br /> <br /> Pages: 8 487 Dimensions: 9⅛ x 6 x 1½ . The Viking Press unknown
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Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift
<p>Minimal library distinctions Pocket intact else appears as unread unblemished copy in Poly Protected DJ with no significant wear as shown.</p><p><strong>Synopsis: </strong> The author's eighth novel --- One of his very best books and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976 and The National Book Foundation Medal for Contributions to American Literature in 1990. A self-described "comic book about death" whose title character is modeled on the self-destructive lyric poet Delmore Schwartz.</p><p> "For many years Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charles Citrine were best of friends – Humboldt a grand erratic figure a great poet; Charlie a young man of frenzied and noble longings straight out of the Middle West his heart inflamed with literature. But by the 1970's Humboldt has died a failure in New York and Charlie's success-ridden life in Chicago has taken various turns for the worse; when Humboldt acts from the grave to change Charlie's life. He has left Charlie something in his will. Charlie comes into a legacy. Now Charlie is middle-aged and a bit shaky and it is high time his life comes to something. How the gentle but resilient Charlie comes to know what he must do and how he triumphs over his ever more ridiculous tribulations is the great discovery of Humboldt's Gift."<strong> . </strong></p><p><strong>Insurance & handling is included free. Extra Charges/Fees apply on Shipments Outside The U.S. and Expedited Shipments. Oversize and/or heavy books may require additional fees. Will advise Updated 6.12.2022 #2127-20519 Updated 3.14.2023 Biblio 9.17.2020 <strong>Updated 11.2.25</strong></strong></p> The Viking Press hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : #2127-20519 ISBN : 0670386553 9780670386550
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Saul Bellow
HUMBOLDT'S GIFT Franklin Library
Franklin Center Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Leather Bound Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. A Limited Edition. ; First Franklin Library Edition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Franklin Library hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 129338
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Saul Bellow
HUMBOLDT'S GIFT Franklin Library
Franklin Center Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Leather Bound Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. A Limited Edition. ; First Franklin Library Edition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Franklin Library hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 130123
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Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift
Viking 1975. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo standard book size. 488 pages. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket worn at edges small chips and tears and is brownd here and there. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item not stock photos. Inventory No: 31282. . Viking hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 31282
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Saul Bellow
HUMBOLDT'S GIFT Franklin Library
Franklin Center Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Accented in 22kt gold printed on archival paper with gilded edges smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound In full leather with hubbed spines. Book plate to second free end page. A Limited Edition. ; First Franklin Library Edition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Franklin Library hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 92222
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Saul Bellow
HUMBOLDT'S GIFT Franklin Library
Franklin Center PA: The Franklin Library 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Accented in 22kt gold printed on archival paper with gilded edges smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound In full leather with hubbed spines. A Limited Edition. ; First Franklin Library Edition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The Franklin Library hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 94436
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Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift
The Viking Press August 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible - Very Good. First edition. Very Good in like dustjacket. Corners square spine ends bumped but not rubbed p.o. inscription on the half title. The jacket is not price-clipped and has light rubbing at the spine ends; no tears or chips. The Viking Press hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 144966 ISBN : 0670386553 9780670386550
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SAUL BELLOW
HUMBOLDT'S GIFT
<p>BOOK HAS LIGHT SOILINGBROWNING END PAGESSLIGHT PULL AS USUAL THIS BOOKYELLOW BOARDS WITH GOLD CLOTH SPINE BLACK LETTERINGSMALL WRINKLE SPINE. DJ; HAS NOT FAIRED AS WELL.SOILINGSMALL STAINSLIGHT CHIPPING 3 TEARS 2 ABOUT 3 INCHES1 ABOUT 1 INCH ALL ON THE BACK SIDE.PRICE INTACT. ALSO HAVE THE ARC LISTED.</p> VIKING hardcover
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Saul Bellow
Humbolt's Gift
New York: The Viking Press 1975. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Gold cloth with yellow paste down and black type and red line to spine. Original dust jacket clipped. Gold endpapers. Jacket spine sunned otherwise near fine. Slight tanning to text block edges but very clean and tight. A very good copy. . The Viking Press Hardcover
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SAUL BELLOW (COLLECTION) 10 BOOKS/ 7 TITLES/ 2 SIGNED
HUMBOLT'S GIFT4 BKS/3 DIFFERENT BINDINDS TO JERUSALEM AND BACKSIGNEDSOMETHING TO REMEMBER ME BYSIGNEDHERZOGCOLLECTED STORIESUKHENDERSON THE RAIN KINGUKTHE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH
<p>HUMBOLT'S GIFT: 4 COPIES: A. Advanced Reading Copy softcover good pages are age tonedsoiled covers. B & C: 1st editionfirst published viking 1975 1 is VG less soiling than the other-has previous owners inscription 1st leaf and priced clipped. 2nd: price intact no writing better that Good. DJ both are soilededgewear and small tears. These DJs were probably the cheapest made and fragile. Copy D; Franklin Library NF with minor scratches to the page ends only defects I see.</p><p>COLLECTED STORIES: UK PRICE INTACT AGE TONING AND USED 2 DIFFERENT PAPER STOCKS Minor scratches rear dj thru the mylar NF.</p><p>TO JERUSALEM AND BACK:NF. This edition is a signed copy on the main title page below his printed name. VG book and DJ. First published 1976 viking. bottom spine area of the book small fading.</p><p>SOMETHING TO REMEMBER ME BY: This special edition with bookplate signed for the class of 1995 Boston University Stated "This volume first published in 1991 by Viking Penguin" it appears not to have been read or even open up to far. but i still rate NF in case I miss something.</p><p>HERZOG: DJ has rubbingchipping with the worst1/2 inch triangle front bottom corner with small tearsLets call it poor price intact.Book:inside front cover is bookplate previous owner it appears there was cheap article caused heavy browning first published 1964 viking light foxing fore edge and of course cheap construction and glue coming thru. But still VG/tight/square.</p><p>HENDERSON THE RAIN KING: UK ED. REPRINT PRINTER. rate the book and DJ in good condition the front cover extents farther out than the back cover.</p><p>the adventures of augie march: publish by viking press September 1953 this is the first printing appears to be unread with minor bruising to spine ends. DJ price intact light soiling top front corner hint moisture stain. Better than VG book and DJ</p>Bonus Book: THE DEAN'S DECEMBER 1982 Harper&Row; 1st Printing VG to Better Good DJ Good-VG Minor flaws but it is an added book. VARIOUS hardcover
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Saul Bellow
Humbolts Gift
Penguin Non-Classics 1984. Paperback. New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Saul Bellow</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Penguin Non-Classics</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Paperback</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9785550984307</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1984</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Charlie Citrine an intellectual middle-aged author of award-winning biographies and plays contemplates two significant figures and philosophies in his Von Humboldt Fleisher a dead poet who had been his mentor and Rinaldo Cantabile a very-much-alive minor mafioso who has been the bane of Humboldt's existence. Humboldt had taught Charlie that art is powerful and that one should be true to one's creative spirit. Rinaldo Charlie's self-appointed financial adviser has always urged Charlie to use his art to turn a profit. At the novel's end Charlie has managed to set his own course.</p> Penguin (Non-Classics) paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 9785550984307-2025 ISBN : 555098430X 9785550984307
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Saul Bellow
Iarna decanului
Used. For more details please contact me unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : feb98312
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Saul Bellow
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
audioCD. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 1982672773.G ISBN : 1982672773 9781982672775
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Saul Bellow
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
mp3_cd. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 1982672781.G ISBN : 1982672781 9781982672782
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Saul BELLOW
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
Viking. Very Good. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. Viking unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : H-129-707 ISBN : 0670853313 9780670853311
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Saul Bellow
It all adds up: from the dim past to the uncertain future a non-fiction collection
Secker & Warburg N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Page size: xiii 327 p. Size: 25 cm A5 Large format Secker & Warburg paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 2080202103704256
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Saul Bellow
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
New York: Viking Press 1994. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF preceding the First Edition. Includes a 40-page segment excised from the published book. Not to be confused with the more common advance reader's edition which has a pictorial wrapper and does not include the excised text.<br /> <br /> Spine panel lightly faded else Fine in pictorial wrappers. Viking Press unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 145558
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Saul Bellow
It All Adds Up:From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
New York: Viking Press 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed on title page. Very nice tight copy! Viking Press hardcover
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Saul BELLOW
L'Hiver du Doyen
Paris: Flammarion 1982. Fine. Flammarion Paris 1982 15 x 21 cm broché First edition in French of which there were no deluxe copies. Handsome copy with newspaper clipping included. Autograph inscription dated and signed by Saul Bellow to his friend Nadine Nimier wife and widow of Roger Nimier. Flammarion unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 79466
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Saul BELLOW - Michel DEON (trans)
L'homme de Buridan
Paris: Plon 1954. Fine. Plon Paris 1954 12 x 19 cm relié First edition in French established by Michel Déon a Service de Presse advance copy. Half red shagreen binding smooth spine pebbled paper boards combed paper endpapers and pastedowns original wrappers preserved and mounted. Autograph inscription signed by Michel Déon to Pierre Emmanuel: "". ce roman d'une Amérique qu'il connait bien et que je connais grâce à lui."" "". this novel of an America he knows well and which I know thanks to him."" Plon hardcover
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Saul BELLOW
Le faiseur de pluie
Paris: Gallimard 1961. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1961 14.50 x 20.50 cm broché First edition of the French translation on ordinary paper. Boards marginally and slightly soiled Autograph inscription dated and signed by Saul Bellow to his friend Nadine Nimier wife and widow of Roger Nimier: ""For Nadine with apologiers for the sad eyes and much love. Saul."" Gallimard hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 80665
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Saul Bellow
Les aventures d'Augie March ; Le don de Humboldt
Editions Gallimard 2014. Paperback. New. 1024 pages. French language. 8.03x5.59x1.26 inches. Editions Gallimard paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 2-2070138747 ISBN : 2070138747 9782070138746
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Saul Bellow
LETTERS
New York: Viking 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Foxing on top text block edge.; 608 pages. Viking hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 314715 ISBN : 0670022217 9780670022212
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Saul Bellow, Benjamin Taylor (editor)
LETTERS
New York: Viking 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Viking hardcover
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Saul Bellow
More Die of Heartbreak Signed
New York: William Morrow & Company Inc 1987. Very Good/Very Good. New York: William Morrow & Company Inc. 1987. First Edition stated with full numberline. Octavo 24cm; publishe'rs gray dust jacket witih $17.00 price intact; maroon boards with light gray cloth spine and silver lettering; 335pp. Jacket lightly rubbed and bumped at corners and spine ends. Boards square with bumping at top corner and nudging to tail. Binding sound and pages unmarked. <br /> <br /> Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Bellow's tenth novel. William Morrow & Company, Inc unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 38808 ISBN : 0688069355 9780688069353
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Saul Bellow
More Die Of Heartbreak
New York: William Morrow And Company INC 1987. Used. Excellent condition. Hardcover.<br /> Dust Jacket.<br /> <br /> 346 pp.<br /> <br /> First Edition.<br /> <br /> In this acclaimed novel from one of America's literary legends two unforgettable characters take a lively romp through the baffling and often hilarious connection between the body and the mind. An eccentric Russian literature professor leaves his native Paris to be near his uncle--a world-class genius in botany but a total bungler when it comes to women--in the Midwest. William Morrow And Company, INC unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 3354 ISBN : 0688069355 9780688069353
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Saul Bellow
More Die of Heartbreak
<p>Phantom ghost shadow from pocket removal BLEP and from small stamp FLEP else content appears as unread and unblemished with fine brown/cream boards displaying no significant surface/edge wear. DJ displaying no significant surface/edge wear as shown with Taped ID at Heel of spine.</p><p>Kenneth Trachtenberg an expert in Russian history and literature tries to protect his revered uncle Benn Crader a world-renowned botanist from a tangle of family relationships greed and the willfulness of the human heart. <P>Kirkus Review: "You have longings the male Eros does that to you; you take the sexual path and it leads you into lewdness lewdness opens up into insanity a world of madness rushes at you full face." This for narrator Kenneth Trachtenberg 35 assistant prof of Russian literature is the "pain schedule" the "unique ordeal" for brainy refined men in 20th-century America: men with "the privilege of vision" men with no "gift"—but lots of yearning—for love and sex. And Bellow's new novel—Kenneth's rambling often richly comic monologue—details the agonies that come when two such men insist on seeking love in a world where Eros is debased instead of settling for exquisite isolation. Kenneth's primary focus is on his beloved Uncle Berm renowned botanist and esteemed professor at a Midwestern university a man of epic mind and soul: "He had the magics but as a mainstream manager he was nowhere." So despite protective maneuvers by Kenneth widower Benn has recently fallen into "a succession of sexual miseries": seduction by an alcoholic divorcee neighbor; near-entrapment by a freaked-out jet-setting former beauty; and now—impetuous marriage to "glittering nervous" Matilda Layamon social-climbing daughter of a rich crass local doctor. Living with his pushy new in-laws in their palatial duplex passive Berm is out-of-place cut off from his resonating plant-world. Matilda—whose allure has always had a menacing aspect her wide thin shoulders remind Berm of Tony Perkins in Psycho drag—spends half the day asleep the other half planning her grand salon with Benn as social bait. Worst of all the greedy Layamons prod Benn—against all his finer instincts—into raking up an old family quarrel: Great-Uncle Vilitzer a corrupt city power-broker now 80 ill in legal trouble once cheated Benn and his sister Kenneth's mother out of a real-estate fortune. While recounting Benn's degradation and ultimate escape however Kenneth also broods on his own turmoil as the unsexy academic son of "a father with a world-historical cock." Kenneth's ex-girlfriend lives in Seattle with their child spurning his obsessed wooing preferring rough-stuff lovers. Meanwhile since women too "die of heartbreak" Kenneth's platonic friend Dita who has bad skin undergoes awful plastic surgery in an attempt to increase her desirability to him. The provocative socio-sexual ideas on display throughout—the brain/body split cf. Bellow's story "Cousins" the futility of love the "fallen state" of humankind—don't hold up well under incessant repetition without development; Kenneth—part authorial alter-ego part figure-of-fun pompous and prim—is an unsatisfying novel-length narrator ambiguous yet flat. Often in fact this seems to be a dense short-story or two stretched out to 336 pages—winding down to mild denouements which are heavily foreshadowed instead of barreling towards them. All too aptly Kenneth likens his speculations to "a stationary bicycle." Still there are great chunks of fine funny Bellovian rhetoric here that aphoristic blend of scholar and stand-up along with enough sporadic narrative zing—amused appalled vignettes worthy of a Jewish-American Balzac—to compensate readers for the longueurs and overall puffiness. </p><p>Shipping/Handling/Insurance/Tracking Included within the continental U.S. Free Shipping. Extra Charges/Fees apply on Shipments Outside The U.S. and Expedited Shipments. Oversize and/or heavy books <b>may</b> require additional fees. Will advise. Written 2.25.2021SK #4758-30421 Img. 5931<br /></p><p><br /></p> William Morrow and Co., Inc. hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 4758-30421 ISBN : 0688069355 9780688069353
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Saul Bellow; Martin Amis
More Die of Heartbreak Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics 2004-08-31. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : Q-0142437743 ISBN : 0142437743 9780142437742
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Saul Bellow
More Die of Heartbreak Signed First Edition
New York: William Morrow 1987. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Author's tenth novel.<br /> <br /> Fine in an about Fine dust jacket. William Morrow unknown
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 155486 ISBN : 0688069355 9780688069353
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