About this title: This novel by French writer René Daumal (1908-1944) turns a short novel about a group of friends getting sloshed together into a parody of society and a way of questioning the meaning of existence.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, Routledge & Paul [1979]
Date published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780710003256ISBN:0710003250
Description: First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Original language publication was 1938. Translated from French by David Coward and E. A. Lovatt. Hardcover, very good (corner bumped) in very good dust jacket (faint surface scratches). ISBN 0710003250. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge & Keegan Paul, London
Date published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780710003256ISBN:0710003250
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Original blue cloth, gold lettering to spine, 150 pages. First English language translation from the French by David Coward and E.A. Lovatt. Price-clipped dustjacket, very slight spotting to top edge. Combining satire and poetry, the narrator tells of his encounters with the Fidgeters, the Fabricators of useless objects, the Clarificators and others all of whom he describes with humour, pity, cruelty and elegance. Near fine-a bright, tight copy. read more
Edition: First edition in English translation
Binding: Blue cloth binding
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc, Boulder
Date published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780877731627ISBN:0877731624
Description: Octavo. A fine copy in a near fine unclipped dust jacket (a trace of age toning to spine). 121 pp. including index. Originally published in 1938 (Editions Gallimard, Paris) with the title, "La Grande Beuverie. " Crisp, bright and unmarked, without inscriptions or bumping to corners, dust jacket is without chipping or tears. Dust jacket is mylar-protected. read more
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