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Troubled Sleep
by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover edition published by Alfred A. Knopf. Originally published in French in 1949, this is a 1951 American hardcover edition.
Third in the 'Roads To Freedom' series. The story of a group of despondent Frenchman, experiencing the fall of France in 1940. Identifying the exact edition of this title can be tricky. Post-WWII club editions were often very similar in quality to the 'Trade' editions. It is not clearly marked as such, but it is most likely the book club edition. The dust jacket is not priced on the front flap, and the copyright page does not include the phrase 'First American Edition'. Even as a club edition, it is a nicely printed copy. Red cloth covered boards, with the title and author name on the spine - author name within an oval design on the front cover board. The dust jacket shows wear at the corners, edges, head and heel of the spine, age tanning to the spine panel, and has some creasing and abrasion wear to the edges of the spine panel. Cover boards are flat, the top right front corner is just slightly bumped. The word 'Paradise' is ink stamped on the top edge of the first flyleaf, and on the top edge of the back paste-down page, about 1" long and 1/4" tall. 5-1/2" X 7-3/4", 421 pages. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Some dots of age foxing to the top edge of the text block. Age tanning to the top edge too. Rough edges to the fore edge of the text block. Binding is tight and square. This is not a library discard copy. The attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.
Synopsis
Troubled Sleep (or La mort dans l'âme, in the original French) is a 1949 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre. The book was originally translated as Iron in the Soul. It is the third part in the trilogy Les chemins de la liberté (The Roads to Freedom).
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Details
- Seller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 23-05377
- Title
- Troubled Sleep
- Author
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Date Published
- 1951
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
Biblio member since 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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