The Dean's December
Language: English
Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1982
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Linden Avenue Books, Salem, OR, U.S.A.Linden Avenue Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Harper & Row, New York, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Fine dustjacket. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Boards show slight bowing, else fine. The interior is clean, bright and unmarked. The unclipped dustjacket shows the original $13.95 price, crisp and bright with no chips, tears or creases. Protected in a clear mylar cover. Ninth novel from Bellow, a three time National Book Award winner and Nobel Laureate. Carefully packaged and shipped in a sturdy cardboard box.
Seller Inventory # 10424
- Title
- The Dean's December
- Author
- Bellow, Saul
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, New York
- Publication year
- 1982
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060148497
- ISBN 13
- 9780060148492
- Illustrator
- Paul Perlow, jacket design
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Modern First Editions
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From the Back Cover
by Saul Bellow, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1976
The Vesuvian eloquence of Saul Bellow is one of the glories of modern literature.
-Jonathan Raban Sunday Times
A novel that will raise its readers to fever pitch of the kind of passionate excitement and involvement that only real art can inspire.
-Salman Rushdie New Statesman
A wittily meditative book, an intensely serious enterprise from a writer we can see we are right to acknowledge as of world class.
-Malcolm Bradbury Books and Bookmen
A brilliant piece of work...different in many ways from much of his earlier work, it is one of his best.
-David Holloway Sunday Telegraph
There is in The Dean's December enough thought and matter for ten other contemporary novels.
-Melvyn Bragg Punch
A serious, sane, thought-provoking novel of a kind rare these days, a worthy addition to the canon of a writer of genius.
-Paul Bailey Standard
In Saul Bellow the American novelist has come of age.
-Geoffrey Moore Financial Times
An overall mastery of form...and at times a sublime intensity.
-Lewis Jones Spectator
Bellow has at last created a plausible and likeable woman and has done so with wonderful economy.
-Gabriel Josipovici Times Literary Supplement
The shape of Saul Bellow's new novel is satisfyingly simple.
-Ian McEwan Observer
Near the end of Saul Bellow's admirable new novel, the dean is accused of "abyssifying and catastrophising".
-Thomas Hinde Sunday Telegraph
By any standards, a marvellous novel, rich, provocative, illuminating...buy it and read it: more than once.
-Alan Massie Scotsman
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