Isbn: 9780394584515 - cow (18 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. 1st Am. ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Zustand: Good. 1st Am. ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Zustand: Good. 1st Am. ed. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. First edition. Minor wear on the covers, corners, and the edges. Like shelf wear.

1st printing of 1st US edition. Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

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Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. First American Edition. Clean and tight copy with no dust jacket Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good++. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good++. Black paper over boards with cow impressions on front board and red print on spine; 353 pages; solid binding; square corners; no internal marks, page 89-90 has a tiny tear at fore edge, else a fine edition; very slight rubbing to dust jacket; rear board is blind stamped.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First American Edition. light shelf wear and soiling. binding is tight and square. former owners inscription to ffp.

Cloth. First American edition. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket.

dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 353 pages. A novel by Sterchi translated form the German by Michael Hofmann. A tight near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with a remainder mark to the top edge of the pages and in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York, 1989.First Edition, First Printing. NEAR FINE hardcover book in NEAR FINE dust-jacket. Previous owner signature on front free end paper and again on the title page. NOT remainder marked. NOT price-clipped. NOT faded. NOT book club edition. NOT ex-library. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.…

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good in Dustjacket. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1990. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394584511. Highly Praised 1st Novel About Cows & Dairy Workers. Translated from the German by Michael Hofman. 353 pages. hardcover. keywords: Europe Switzerland Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - COW is a magnificent first novel, masterfully translated by Michael Hofmann, which happens to be about cows and dairy workers, but which transcends its immediate theme to become a powerful and moving piece of fiction about man, his work, and his food at the end of the twentieth century. Not since Herman Melville has an author so powerfully and intricately explored the life-and-death cycle of an animal preyed upon by man. From pasture to dairy to abattoir, Sterchi follows Blösch, the lead cow of farmer Knuchel's herd, describing in exquisite prose each detailglorious and stomach-turningof bovine existence. At the same time Sterchi creates a modern-day Ahab named Ambrosio a dark-skinned Spanish guest-worker in milk-white Switzerland, who is not pristine enough, according to the Swiss, to handle live cows, and who is thus relegated to cutting up dead ones. Starting with these two unlikely characters, Sterchi creates a monumental and important work of fiction about beasts and men, about how they prey upon each other and upon themselves. inventory #14043. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Publisher: Pantheon, NY, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. FINE- hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. A previous owner's gift inscription on the front free end paper. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.; 1.5 x 9.3 x 6.2 Inches; 353 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First American edition. Translated by Michael Hofmann. Near fine with slightly bowed boards in a near fine dustwrapper with faint rubbing. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Originally published in Switzerland, 1983 under the title *Blösch*.