About this title: Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, "All About H. Hatterr" is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of "Living." Each teacher delivers himself of a great "Generality," each great Generality launches a new great "Adventure ...
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Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Publishers Overstock. A Good copy with a Remainder Mark and wear to the covers and the extremities. Buy with confidence from an Independent Bookstore where the owners, a husband and wife team, have over 25 years of combined bookselling experience. read more
Edition: New Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1970
Description: Good Hardback. Very Good+ Dustjacket. 6 x 8" Book has a slight musty smell; ----------SATISFACTION GUARANTEED---------FAST, COURTEOUS SERVICE------ALL DUSTJACKETS ARE COVERED WITH NEW CLEAR MYLAR PROTECTOR----- read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Date Published: 2007-11-06
ISBN-13:9781590172421ISBN:1590172426
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781590172421. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: McPherson
Date Published: 1986-11
ISBN-13:9780914232780ISBN:0914232789
Description: Very Good. Clean, crisp, tight binding, text unmarked. Dust jacket (this paperback has a jacket) very good. Front cover and a few page corners bent. NOT ex-library, NOT book club, NO remainder mark. read more
Edition: [Rev. ed.].
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1970
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. 287 p. 21 cm. Farrar Straus Giroux HC/DJ 1st printing of this new edition featuring the Anthony Burgess introduction. Solid, snug and neay. Bright clean dust jacket with a single pen-stroke through the 5.95 issue price on the unclipped front flap. A sale price penned in small red number to the top corner front end page, Otherwise unmarked and apparently unread, Hint of sun fade to dust jacket spine panel. NF-/VG+ read more
Description: Fine. 0914232789 Very light shelf wear / edge wear cover / pages like new condition//"Buy with Confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Customer Service Makes All the Difference. " read more
Edition: First thus
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus Giroux
Date Published: 1970
Description: Near fine in Very good jacket. First thus. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2" pp. 287. Red cloth binding. First printing of revised edition. Page edges have a few light spots and scuffs; page surfaces are clean and bright. Dust jacket has minor edgewear, including one 1/4" closed tear. read more
Edition: Second Edition, First Canadian Printing
Binding: Paperback (78697-125)
Publisher: Lancer Books, New York
Date Published: 1972
Description: Good. With a new chapter for this edition. Introduction by Anthony Burgess. Owner's name. Casing lightly creased and worn. Pages toned. 288 pp. read more
Description: VG Very good condition, 300 pgs, blue hardcover with red spine labels. Pub: 1951, first printing stated, Farrar, Straus & Young, NY. The Indian author's first novel, published just after India's independence. A post-colonial novel of India. Interior of book is spotless. Binding is tight. Several spots of white paint on front cover near upper spine. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781590172421ISBN:1590172426
Description: Good. Cover and pages may have some wear or writing. Binding is tight. We ship daily Monday-Friday. Delivery Confirmation included on all domestic orders. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc., New York
Date Published: 1951
Description: Very Good. 5.5 x 8.25" Cloth. Crown 8vo. 300pp. VG: sewn binding is tight and secure; cloth boards are tanned and discoloured with chipping to the top of the spine and rubbing to the bottom; pages are clean, flat, and unmarked, with even toning throughout and dustiness to top of text block. Lacks dust jacket. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781590172421ISBN:1590172426
Description: New. Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, "All About H. Hatterr" is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been ra... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McPherson
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780914232797ISBN:0914232797
Description: Good. This is an ex-library copy. Unless specifically noted to the contrary, item may contain library markings; 100% of this purchase will support literacy programs through a nonprofit organization! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Lancer
Date Published: 1972
Description: Very Good. First Edition, Second Revised Edition with a new chapter. Clean and tight with white crisp pages. No writing or marks. read more
Binding: First printing, Trade paperback, New,
Publisher: New York Review of Books, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781590172421ISBN:1590172426
Description: New. Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, "All About H. Hatterr" is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of "Living. " ... read more
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