Published by The Noonday Press / Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, NY, USA, 1973
ISBN 10: 0374500045 ISBN 13: 9780374500047
Seller: Post Horizon Booksellers, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. Frisch, Shari (illustrator). 223pp. Illustrated wrapper shows surface scuff to back cover, no edgewear. Binding square and not creased. Octavo. The Noonday Press Catalog No. N101. Published originally under the title, Memo?rias po?stumas de Braz Cubas and translated from the Portuguese by William L. Grossman. First Noonday paperback edition 1956, this is the 10th printing, 1973, stated.
Published by Noonday Press 1952 TP & VERSO, NY, 1952
ISBN 10: 0871404966 ISBN 13: 9780871404961
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by FRISCH, SHARI DRAWINGS (illustrator). First Edition. GOOD CONDITION IN GOOD CLIPT(NOPR ICE)DUST JACKET, CLEAN, SOLID, EDGEWEAR TO DRAMATIC DUST JACKET. ; Gold & SILVER titles on spine strip.BLUE hardcovers.white endpapers.BLACK & WHITE TITLES DARK BLUE DUST JACKET, SHOWING "MODERN ART" FACE, TOMBSTONE & MECHANICAL LINES. *****NOTE PUBLISHER.NOONDAY**** ; 223pg pages; In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressions and exuberant insights. A clear forerunner of Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luis Borges, Epitaph for a Small Winner, first published in 1880, is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history.
Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1966
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback in good condition. Covers are edge and shelfworn with creases to corners and front spine hinge. Light foxing to page block and to insides of covers. Text clean and binding sound. AD. Used.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First U.k. Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 236. Original publishers blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Neat name on front endpaper with book label on the front cover and some marking to covers, otherwise very good minus with clean text.