Don Quixote De La Mancha, The First Part Of The Life And Achievements Of The Renowned

De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel (Author) / Motteux, Peter (Translator)

Verlag: Random House, New York, New York, 1941

Beschreibung

566 pages: 7.25 x 10.25 in.: KB#012643: No dustjacket is included. Title label on spine is slightly rubbed over but still gilt lettering with red background and readable. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except as indicated), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "In the year 1605,in the Spanish city of Valladolid, an unsuccessful writer and former soldier by the name of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra published a book that was to place his name forever in the pantheon of the immortals. Cervantes' novel . told of the adventures of an eccentric hidalgo who adopted the name of Don Quixote de la Mancha, when his brain had become so addled from reading too many romances on knighthood that his 'wit was wholly extinguished' and he 'fell into one of the strangest conceits that ever madman stumbled on in this world.'": Wood engraving. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 012643

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Don Quixote De La Mancha, The First Part Of ...

Verlag: Random House, New York, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1941

Einband: Hard Cover

Illustrator: Illustrated by Hans Alexander Mueller

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket

Auflage: First Edition: First Printing.