SEPHARAD: A NOVEL - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed, Dated, And Placed by Antonio Munoz Molina - SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE WITH SOUVENIR OF EVENT

Language: English

Published by Harcourt Books, New York City, NY, 2003

0151009015 / 9780151009015

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1st Printing. Signed. 385 pages. Published in 2003. The author's second novel to be translated into English. One of the greatest books of our time. The very first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the British Edition and the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Antonio Munoz Molina's "Sefarad" in a brilliant English translation by the indispensable Margaret Sayers Peden. "Sepharad" being the name of Spain (and the Iberian Peninsula) given to it by her Jewish settlers, the "Sephardic" Jews as opposed to the "Ashkenazi" Jews of Northern Europe, especially Germany. "From one of Spain's most celebrated writers, an extraordinary, inspired book. At once fiction, history, and memoir that draws on the Sephardic Diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin's Great Purge, to tell a twentieth-century story. Shifting seamlessly from the past to the present and following the routes of escape across countries and continents, Munoz Molina evokes people real and imagined, who come together in a richly allusive pattern. From Eugenia Ginsburg to Grete Buber-Neumann, the one on a train to the Gulag, the other to a Nazi concentration camp; from a shoemaker and a nun who become lovers in a small town in Spain to Primo Levi bound for Auschwitz. And others - some well-known, others unknown - all voices of separation, nostalgia, love, and endless waiting. Written with clarity of vision and passion, in a style both lyrical and accessible, 'Sepharad' makes the experience our own" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Antonio Munoz Molina collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, dated, and placed in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "A. Munoz Molina New York December 1, 2004". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Announcement of the event during which his signature was obtained. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, dated, and placed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with the British Edition and the Softcover Edition. Copies available online have serious flaws or are subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Antonio Munoz Molina's "Sepharad" is regarded by Mario Vargas Llosa, Arturo Perez-Reverte, and Daniel Mendelsohn, the most brilliant American critic of his generation, as a masterpiece. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO ANTONIO MUNOZ MOLINA'S "A MANUSCRIPT OF ASHES" TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0151009015.…

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Title
SEPHARAD: A NOVEL - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed, Dated, And Placed by Antonio Munoz Molina - SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE WITH SOUVENIR OF EVENT
Author
Molina, Antonio Munoz (Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden)
Publisher
Harcourt Books, New York City, NY
Publication year
2003
Condition
Fine
Dust jacket
Fine
Signed
Signed by Author(s)
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0151009015
ISBN 13
9780151009015
Edition
1st Edition
Printing
1st Printing

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