Beat Sterchi (114 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Cow is the story of a Spanish agricultural laborer, Ambrosio, who goes to Switzerland as a guest worker. He is bound for a village in the Swiss highlands, and the novel begins as he is about to spend a summer working for Farmer Knuchel. It ends in the abattoir of the neighboring city, at the end of the seven hard years of labor that have destroyed him. There he sees the once magnificent lead cow on Knuchel's farm, now a sad, condemned creature in the abattoir. Cow was acclaimed as a contemporary classic on first publication. Now more than ever it must be read as a book of archaic power about man, his work and his food and, most importantly, as a damning indictment of the relationship between man and the animal world.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Cow is the story of a Spanish agricultural laborer, Ambrosio, who goes to Switzerland as a guest worker. He is bound for a village in the Swiss highlands, and the novel begins as he is about to spend a summer working for Farmer Knuchel. It ends in the abattoir of the neighboring city, at the end of the seven hard years of labor that have destroyed him. There he sees the once magnificent lead cow on Knuchel's farm, now a sad, condemned creature in the abattoir. Cow was acclaimed as a contemporary classic on first publication. Now more than ever it must be read as a book of archaic power about man, his work and his food and, most importantly, as a damning indictment of the relationship between man and the animal world.…

Condition: 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. …

Condition: 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.…

Condition: 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.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good++. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. light shelf wear and soiling. binding is tight and square. former owners inscription to ffp.

Softcover. Condition: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.…

Softcover. Condition: Très bon. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Softcover. Condition: Bon. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Hardcover. First edition. Very good condition in very good dust jacket. ]. 353p.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo, (approx. 6 1/4" wide by 9 1/2" tall) black cloth spine over black boards (with outline image of cows on top cover) and red spine titles. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. 091306A.

Hardcover. Condition: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Edition 2021. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Edition 2021. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.…

Condition: Very Good. 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.

Condition: Good. 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.

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.…

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Hardcover. Condition: Très bon. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Soft cover. Condition: New. ISBN:9781786697479,432pp.

Hardcover. Condition: 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.…

Condition: Used: Very Good. very good clean copy .lightly faded to edges. sent next working day from the u/k 0.0.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. …

Condition: acceptable. Ausreichend/Acceptable: Exemplar mit vollständigem Text und sämtlichen Abbildungen oder Karten. Schmutztitel oder Vorsatz können fehlen. Einband bzw. Schutzumschlag weisen unter Umständen starke Gebrauchsspuren auf. / Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, dust jacket (if any), etc may also be worn.…