About this title: Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art of pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for ...
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1962
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, read once, light shelf wear to cover, light creases on spine, slight slant to book, light aging, stk #2273x5. 196 p. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780140018943ISBN:0140018948
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages tanned and unmarked with text clean. Corner fold to one page plus several minor creases, no stains or tears. Cover is moderately worn with scuffs, creases, edge wear and discoloration. Sound book, 199 pages. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 199 p. read more
Edition: 1967 reprint.
Binding: paperback
Publisher: New York: Bantam
Description: 196pp. paperback: Very Good+ [ink name; text is age browned; else VG+] English novelist Graham Greene's (1904-91) psychological tale set in the Congo. read more
Description: Very Good. 0140185399 **Softcover**--Exactly as pictured--EXACT ISBN MATCH--cover has shelf wear at tips of corners and minor cover crease or curl, minor Spine Creasing, No personalizations, No marks in the text at all. Tight and well bound. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Press
Date Published: 1961
Description: Acceptable. First Edition. Ex-Library-First Edition--248 pages. Interior has usual library markings, otherwise clean. Boards have light signs of aging. Spine is slightly cocked. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780140018943ISBN:0140018948
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Still fairly tightly bound, covers rather pliable, some edge and cover wear, pages clean but age-toned some. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 200 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Heinemann, London
Date Published: 1960
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Good. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1962
Description: VG Used, Very Good in VG jacket. PAPERBACK, VG/VG, Bantam, 1962, 8th printing, 1967, 4.1 oz. This copy has visible but minimal creasing of the spine, is in otherwise Very Good condition. Note: expect tanning of any paperback more than a few years old, regardless of condition. read more
Binding: Mass market pb
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1962
Description: Very Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Unknown printing. Illustrated by. 196 p. ; . Mark on front cover where there was a sticker at some point. Otherwise a clean copy. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam, New York
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 196pp. S3525. 7th prtg. Frnt cov creased at sp. Sp lightly creased; edges & ends a bit worn. Stamp inside frnt cov. He was a celebrated success as a builder of churches and a collector of women. But his desires had dried up; his soul was burnt-out. All Querry wanted was refuge. He found it in the furthest desolate reaches of a mud-thick African river. It was a leper colony run by priests and nuns. Her name was Marie, and she was still almost a child. Her husband ... read more
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