A Case of Curiosities
by Allen Kurzweil
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About This Item
Franklin Center, Pa.: The Franklin Library, 1991. Book. Fine. Full-Leather. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Brown leather with elaborate gilt designs to all outside surfaces and gilt lettering to the spine. Signed by Allen Kurzweil to FFEP. All edges gilt, brown silk book mark, 4 raised bands to the spine. marbled EPs. Stated First Edition for the First Edition Society's Limited Edition. This copy is FINE. No noticeable blemishes. Looks and feels unread. Pristine..
Synopsis
In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abbé, apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller, and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude's greatest device-a talking mechanical head-that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre. Hailed by critics for the shimmering brilliance of its inventions and its uncanny fidelity to the textures of the past, A Case of Curiosities places Allen Kurzweil securely in the ranks of the finest literary artists of our time.
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- Bookseller
- Bailey Bonzo Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002734
- Title
- A Case of Curiosities
- Author
- Allen Kurzweil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pa.
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
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