Buy this book on-line VONNEGUT, KURT: : BLUEBEARD - THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RABO KARABEKIAN (1916-1988)LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE LTD.,1988. ISBN 0224025481.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/FINE+. No owner inscrptn,price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated black background to front and spine with colour pictorial artwork by Martin Sexton,illustrated front panel of an unlocked grey padlock with six colour dabs of paint: red, yellow,blue,green,white and black,with author's capitalised white-lettered name at top edge and capitalised,pale blue lettered part-title to lower edge; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured and lettered author name and part-title as the fronts and publisher's capitalised white-lettered initialas of name and white illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with author's b/w portrait photograph.Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges with inevitable and ubiquitous ageing /toning but with minimal,sporadic spotting to either; contents tight,solid and sound,clean with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean/unblemished sharp-cornered with exception of front lower corner's tip with a miniscule bump and reciprocal crease,all others unaffected, original navy blue cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-300pp [paginated] includes 37 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,author's Note,an epigram [Dr. Mark Vonnegut,M.D. (letter to Author,1985)],full title separator page,and a dedication.
Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable and even internally,is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 35+ year-old age. It is only the minimal faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading overall. Despite that,it really is still an exemplary example for its lack of major age-acquired detracting faults.
Novel is told as a first-person narrative and describes the late years of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian, who first appeared as a minor character in Vonnegut's 'Breakfast of Champions (1973).Circumstances of the novel bear rough resemblance to the fairy tale of 'Bluebeard' popularized by Charles Perrault.
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