About this title: Dali's only novel. In richly visual language Dali describes the lives and loves of a group of aristocratic characters who, in their beauty, luxury, and extravagance, symbolize the decadent Europe of the 1930s. The story of the tangled lives of the protagonists, from the February riots of 1934 in Paris to the closing days of the war, is a brilliant ...
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Peter Owen Ltd
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780720606874ISBN:072060687X
Description: Good. COVER WORN. TEXT UNMARKED. Dali's only novel. In richly visual language Dali describes the lives and loves of a group of aristocratic characters who, in their beauty, luxury, and extravagance, symbolize the decadent Europe of the 1930s. The story of the tangled lives of the protagonists, from the February riots of 1934 in Paris to the closing days of the war, is a brilliant vehicle for Dali's ideas, and an evocation of pre-war Europe. Valuable not only for Dali's own specially drawn ... read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Peter Owen Ltd
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780720606874ISBN:072060687X
Description: Good. COVER RUBBED. Dali's only novel. In richly visual language Dali describes the lives and loves of a group of aristocratic characters who, in their beauty, luxury, and extravagance, symbolize the decadent Europe of the 1930s. The story of the tangled lives of the protagonists, from the February riots of 1934 in Paris to the closing days of the war, is a brilliant vehicle for Dali's ideas, and an evocation of pre-war Europe. Valuable not only for Dali's own specially drawn illustrations, ... read more
Description: Illustrated. Near Very Good. This 6 x 9 hardcover has 318 pages. Dali's only novel. In richly visual language Dali describes the lives and loves of a group of aristocratic characters who, in their beauty, luxury, and extravagance, symbolize the decadent Europe of the 1930s. The story of the tangled lives of the protagonists, from the February riots of 1934 in Paris to the closing days of the war, is a brilliant vehicle for Dali's ideas, and an evocation of pre-war Europe. Valuable not only for ... read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Picador, London
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780330243544ISBN:0330243543
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo. Trans. by Haakon chevalier. Dali's only novel. 319pp. Some slight creasing to covers and slight yellowing to page edges. Small bruise to fore edge. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow & Company, New York
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780688002374ISBN:0688002374
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Octavo 6" x 8.5" [CC]. Later printing. Hardcover, bound in boards with dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear with some age-spotting along the edges. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Peter Owen Ltd
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780720604825ISBN:0720604826
Description: Good. Cover type-This book is a hardcover copy. Previous owner's name written in the book. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Description: Very Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Book Condition: Fair. "No Jacket, Spine bowed and slightly cracked, cover partially detached, some wear and foxing. " read more
Edition: Third Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Peter Owen, London
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780720606874ISBN:072060687X
Description: Very Good. 5 1/2" X 8" 318 Pages. Front cover has a 3 inch bottom corner crease, some edge wear and a very slight spine cock. No marks or stamps. First published in 1973. This is the only novel by Salvador Dali and also was an international best-seller that describes the bizarre world already familiar from his paintings. Dali describes, in vividly visual terms, the intrigues and love affairs of a group of dazzling, eccentric aristocrats who, with their luxurious and extravagant lifestyle, ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Nicholson & Watson
Date Published: 1947
Description: Acceptable. Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier. Small tear on frontispiece near spine. First English edition. Frontispiece and terminal illustration by Dali. that where specifically designed and executed for this book. Foxing inside boards. No dust jacket. Loose binding. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: 1944 The Dial Press, NY
Description: Hardcover, price-clipped dust jacket has edge wear, minor chipping and edge rubs, but the Dali art created for the book on the front of the jacket is still quite bright and free of significant wear. The jacket back has scratches and surface rubs. The front hinge has completely separated cleanly between the half title and the title page. There is light spotting on text edges, but virtually no edge wear on the book. Previous owner's name, city and 1944 date is on the front fly. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow,, NY:
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780688002374ISBN:0688002374
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0688002374. A novel. Illustrated by the author. Translated by Haakon Chevalier. First printing thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An attractive, well preserved copy. read more
Edition: 1st. ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Nicholson & Watson, London
Date Published: 1947
Description: VG hardback in Good dust jacket. Feps a little browned; dust jacket worn & chipped at edges, with a little surface rubbing to spine. read more
Description: Good; Collectible. [FIRST EDITION] New York: Dial Hardback, 1944. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Rare novel by surrealist artist Salvador Dali. 413 pages, with frontispiece and tailpiece designed by Dali. Good overall condition with light storage wear, soiling to black cloth boards, minor age-toning to text. No marks, NOT EX-LIBRARY. (B) read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Publisher's Cloth
Publisher: Dial Press
Date Published: 1969
Description: Very Good in Good Plus jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Book tight with owner's ex libris sticker on FFE and a few glue marks also. Bottom and side of page edges have spots. DJ is complete but rubbed and creased. Some chipping, too. 1st edition. Former lending library copy, but no exterior markings. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Peter Owen Ltd
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780720611397ISBN:0720611393
Description: Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: DIAL. NY 1944
Date Published: 1944
Description: Dust Jacket Included. First American Edition. Close to near fine in a Vg. only dj. (Rear dj. flap is completely present, but detached. Shallow chipping at spine ends & along edges of rear panel of dj. Several short edge tears. Patch of faint damping to yellow top stain. Not messy. Couple mildly bumped corner tips) read more
Edition: First Edition Thus: ; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow, New York
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780688002374ISBN:0688002374
Description: 0688002374. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, slight crease to front flap. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Nicholas and Watson, London
Date Published: 1947
Description: FIRST EDITION UK: This is the first and only novel by the Surrealist master. With frontispiece illustration and cover designs drawn especially for this book. Original dust-jacket is in fine condition, with only slight wear to the spine and a small amount of discoloration to endpapers. Scare. read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Peter Owen, London
Date Published: (1973)
Description: Limited edition, originally published in 1944. Translated by Haakon Chevalier. Illustrated by Dali. Quarter vellum and marbled paper covered boards in slipcase. Fine. Dali's only novel. Laid in is a 20 page booklet: Postface to Hidden Faces Comprising Objective Chance and Reverie by Dali. One of 100 copies bound thus (and with the additional Postface booklet) Signed by the author. read more
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. The text is clean and neat, 413 pages. The book is water damaged. part of the jacket is still stuck to the books, torn, black stains to the bottom of the inside front cover, all over the back cover and end page, slight warping, pages still turn well. Front and back illustrations still good. The binding is tight. read more
"This work is so rich with images. It was like getting to get inside his art, and meet the people, and turn corners, and hang out in a opium tent, and then get in more of his art and start all over. Wonderful!"
"Not the novel one imagines Dali could have written. Is mainly about the dissolution of the bourgeoisie way of life through WWII and the unquenchability of people's obsessive desires. Actually pretty tragic. Dali's language is often dense and abstract, while at the same time being absorbingly visual. Perhaps the most interesting is his technique of telescoping between objects and metaphors, so that the words in a description in one sentence become an emotional state in the next, a real fluidity of meaning that harks more from the interplay of dreams than the figurativeness of poetry."
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