The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro - Hardcover

The Stranger at The Palazzo D'oro

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Cocksparrow Books
(Salisbury, WILTS, Vereinigtes Königreich)

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Buchbeschreibung Hardback. Zustand: VG+/F/VG++. y 1st. Edn. 1st. Imp. HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2003 * Publisher: Hamish Hamilton for Penguin. Binding and cover condition: Black cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Mono photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing a girls legs and bust. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £14.99. Gilt and white titles to spine and face. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head of spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Has publisher's stamp "Resale for Charity Only," to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 247 pp. text. iii pp. blank at rear.* Description: The compelling and erotic story of a love affair between a young man and an older woman in Taormina, Sicily in the sixties. "This is my only story. Now that I am sixty I can tell it". He, the narrator, is a twenty-one year old American art student travelling the world. She is a countess â?? apparently cold, haughty and inaccessible. And with her is the doctor Haroun, her gay travelling companion. When he makes their acquaintance at the Palazzo d'Oro, the narrator finds himself filled with unexpected lust and playing a part in something he doesn't quite understand. Finally, aged sixty, he returns to Taormina to tell his story and confront the present.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st./1st. with minor faults reducing it to VG++ in a VG++ protected dust jacket.* 250 pp. 2023-06-05. n. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 10084

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