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Seller's Description:
Very Good in Good jacket. Translated from the 1938 French edition published by Gallimard. Blue cloth with spine titles in gilt.121 pages, octavo. Interior bright and clean, no marks, etc. Binding tight. in a complete dust jacket with original price on inside flap. Jacket has light brown staining to front, a few small stains to rear, and light toning overall. Jacket is in a mylar protector. [See my photo]
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Fair. General wear from age and use. Jacket has water stains; text is uneffected. Open Books is a nonprofit social venture that provides literacy experiences for thousands of readers each year through inspiring programs and creative capitalization of books.
Edition:
First American edition (thus), after the original French edition
Publisher:
Shambhala Publications
Published:
1979
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17294293110
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Seller's Description:
Fine in very good dust jacket. Darkening to spine and edges, light foxing to top edge, pages uncut. Internally fine. First edition. Blue cloth over boards. 8vo (5.75 x 8.5 inches). 121 p., with Index "A Night of Serious Drinking" is among Rene Daumal's most important literary works. Like his more widely read "Mount Analogue, " it is a work of symbolic fiction that can be enjoyed purely as an entertaining and imaginative story, but also for its much deeper meaning embedded in its deceptively simple plot: an unnamed narrator spends an evening getting drunk with a group of friends. As the party becomes intoxicated and more and more exuberant, the narrator embarks on a journey ranging from seeming paradises to the depths of pure hell. The fantastic world depicted in "A Night of Serious Drinking" is actually the ordinary world turned upside down. The characters are called the Anthographers, Fabricators of Useless Objects, Scienters, Nibblists, Clarificators, and other absurd titles. Yet the inhabitants of these strange realms are only too familiar: scientists dissecting an animal in a laboratory, a wise man surrounded by his devotees, politicians and poets expounding their rhetoric. These characters perform hilarious antics and intellectual games, which they see as serious attempts to find freedom and meaning. A rare edition, this was the first English translation of Daumal's pioneering work of "symbolic fiction" 40 years after its original publication.
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Seller's Description:
Very good in very good dust jacket. Gift inscription on 1st page. Text in English, French. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 121 p. Audience: General/trade.
