Tells of the bizarre adventures of an 18th-century watchmaker and mechanical wizard - Claude Page. Maimed by surgery at the age of 12, his manual dexterity destines him to become one of Europe's most gifted inventors when he acquires the skills of the enamelist and watchmaker.
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Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Wraps have only light wear, spine is unbent. Pages are clean with no markings in text. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 212267A
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. 358 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 128647
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Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. ADVANCE READING COPY. SIGNED by Allen Kurzweil. Fine in white pictorial printed wrappers. Author's FIRST book. (B); Signed by Author(s). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 18946
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Tapa dura. Zustand: Bien. Texto en inglés. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados ni anotaciones. Buen estado de conservación. In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abbé, apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller, and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude's greatest device-a talking mechanical head-that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre. Hailed by critics for the shimmering brilliance of its inventions and its uncanny fidelity to the textures of the past, A Case of Curiosities places Allen Kurzweil securely in the ranks of the finest literary artists of our time. Libro. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 101281
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