Johanna
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Menifee, California, United States
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About This Item
Magveto, 1968-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. In Hungarian. 1968 first edition Magveto (Budapest, Hungary), 5 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches tall black hardbound in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, red lettering to front cover and spine, ribbon marker sewn in, red endpapers, title page in black and red ink, 121 pp. plus colophon. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a slightly stained and edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Scarce. OCLC (No. 15045996) locates only eight copies at institutions worldwide, ~HHH~ A collection of poems by Hungarian writer, educator, journalist and translator Agnes Gergely (b. 1933). In 1963, she published her first poetry collection Ajtofelfamon jel vagy (Sign on my door jamb). She published her first novel A tolmacs (The interpreter) in 1973. Gergely was awarded the Attila Jozsef Prize in 1977 and 1987 and the Kossuth Prize in 2000.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Flamingo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HHH-1251-4879
- Title
- Johanna
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Magveto
- Date Published
- 1968-01-01
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About the Seller
Flamingo Books
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Menifee, California
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...