Machado of Brazil : The Life and Times of Machado de Assis [Inscribed]
Language: English
Published by Bramerica, NY, 1953
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Dividing Line Books, Ridgewood, NY, U.S.A.Dividing Line Books
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Condition: Used - Fine
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Inscribed copy of the first English-language biography of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908). The author, a namesake only of his subject, worked at the time of publication as Assistant director of the Brazilian Government Trade Bureau in New York. 246pp; frontis; index. Green cloth; dust jacket. Light toning to edges of leaves. Else fine in a very good jacket with reattached chip at base of spine, some toning. Signed, dated ("1954"), and inscribed in Portuguese by author at half-title.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Machado of Brazil : The Life and Times of Machado de Assis [Inscribed]
- Author
- MACHADO, José Bettencourt
- Publisher
- Bramerica, NY
- Publication year
- 1953
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Biography, Autobiography & Memoir, Literary Criticism & Theory
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