The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic

Manguel, Alberto & Gianni Guadalupi

ISBN 10: 0151005419 / ISBN 13: 9780151005413

Published by Harcourt Brace, New York, 2000

About this Item

Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. B&W illustrations and maps ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 776 pages; "An expanded edition of a classic resource of fantastic literature serves as a guide to the imaginative realms, including Atlantis, Tolkien's Middle Earth, and Oz, touring more than 1,200 lands, including, in this volume, such places as Rushdie's Sea of Stories. ".

Seller Inventory # 21762

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151005419
• ISBN 13: 9780151005413
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Updated.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Reference
  • Fiction::Science Fiction & Fantasy

About this title

Synopsis

An expanded edition of a classic resource of fantastic literature serves as a guide to the imaginative realms, including Atlantis, Tolkien's Middle Earth, and Oz, touring more than 1,200 lands, including, in this volume, such places as Rushdie's Sea of Stories. 50,000 first printing.

About the Author

Alberto Manguel is the bestselling author of dozens of books including A History of Reading, for which he was recently awarded France's prestigious Prix Medicis. An editor, translator, and essayist, he began his career with the first edition of The Dictionary of Imaginary Places in 1980, with co-author Gianni Guadalupi, a translator, editor, and passionate book collector.