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THE RINGS OF SATURN (1/2 - scarce hardcover issue - ex library copy) - W. G. Sebald (Translated from the German by Michael Hulse)

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THE RINGS OF SATURN (1/2 - scarce hardcover issue - ex library copy) - First edition

1998, ISBN: 1860463983

Hardcover

[EAN: 9781860463983], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: The Harvill Press, London], FIRST EDITION; LITERATURE; HISTORY; TRAVEL; W. G. SEBALD; COLLECTABLE PAPERBACKS; MICHAEL HULSE; LITERATUR… More...

[EAN: 9781860463983], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: The Harvill Press, London], FIRST EDITION; LITERATURE; HISTORY; TRAVEL; W. G. SEBALD; COLLECTABLE PAPERBACKS; MICHAEL HULSE; LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION, EAST ANGLIA, CONGO, JOSEPH CONRAD, ROGER CASEMENT, DRAGON THRONE, CHINA, THOMAS BROWNE, JORGE LUIS BORGES, CHATEAUBRIAND, IRELAND, ETHNIC CLEANSING, BOSNIA, Biography & Autobiography|Literary, Fiction|Literary, Literary Collections|Essays, Jacket, Second impression of the scarce first UK hardback edition with the number-string sequence as follows: 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. The hardback edition was published simultaneously with a paperback edition, but had a much smaller print-run, and only ran to three impressions. ***Please note that this is an ex-library copy, and the front free endpaper and half-title pages have been removed.*** Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. ***A good copy in brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners of front board also creased. Page block edges clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally, the book is also very good, with clean and unmarked pages except for the following library marks to the interior as follows: front free endpaper and half-title pages removed, and title page glued at the gutter, Suffolk County Libraries & Heritage withdrawn library stamp to the title page. Surprisingly, there are no other obvious library interventions, and very little creasing to the pages. ***In a very good original illustrated dustwrapper, with a front cover illustration from a painting by J. A. M. Whistler 'Harmony in Blue and Silver, Trouville'. The dustwrapper is complete, but the library has for some reason price-clipped the front flap. The dustwrapper remains clean, with just slight rubbing and creasing at the extremities. The spine of the dustwrapper is faded, also affecting the edges of the panels near the spine. The dustwrapper is however well preserved for an ex-library copy. ***216mm x155mm. 296 pages. ***'"The Rings of Saturn" records a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, the author's home for more than twenty years; it is also an exploration of England's pastoral and imperial past. The narrator extends the horizons of Suffolk to embrace the exploitation in the Congo witnessed by Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement, the succession to the Dragon throne in Chinese history, the lives and writings of Thomas Browne, Jorge Luis Borges, Chateaubriand, silkworm cultivation, Ireland's troubles, and the "ethnic cleansing" carried out fifty years ago in Bosnia. ***"The Rings of Saturn" follows the trails of destruction human beings have wrought on themselves, and yet it is an unremittingly fascinating blend of fiction, autobiography, and history. Its narratives are unfolded with a melancholy ever the domain of Saturn and, like its rings, created from the fragments of shattered worlds.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***An ex-library copy of the second impression of the hardcover issue of the first UK edition of W. G. Sebald's 'The Rings of Saturn'. This hardback issue was issued simultaneously with the more commonly found wrappers issue, and was probably intended mainly for library distribution (as per this copy). Copies of the first three impressions in hardcover in any condition are now scarce. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc., Books<

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Die Ringe des Saturn von W. G. Sebald (Hardcover, 1998 1./1. ex Bibliothek) - W. G. Sebald

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The Rings of Saturn: an English Pilgrimage - Sebald, W. G.

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THE RINGS OF SATURN (1/2 - scarce hardcover issue - ex library copy) - W. G. Sebald (Translated from the German by Michael Hulse)

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THE RINGS OF SATURN (1/2 - scarce hardcover issue - ex library copy) - First edition

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[EAN: 9781860463983], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: The Harvill Press, London], FIRST EDITION; LITERATURE; HISTORY; TRAVEL; W. G. SEBALD; COLLECTABLE PAPERBACKS; MICHAEL HULSE; LITERATUR… More...

[EAN: 9781860463983], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: The Harvill Press, London], FIRST EDITION; LITERATURE; HISTORY; TRAVEL; W. G. SEBALD; COLLECTABLE PAPERBACKS; MICHAEL HULSE; LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION, EAST ANGLIA, CONGO, JOSEPH CONRAD, ROGER CASEMENT, DRAGON THRONE, CHINA, THOMAS BROWNE, JORGE LUIS BORGES, CHATEAUBRIAND, IRELAND, ETHNIC CLEANSING, BOSNIA, Biography & Autobiography|Literary, Fiction|Literary, Literary Collections|Essays, Jacket, Second impression of the scarce first UK hardback edition with the number-string sequence as follows: 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. The hardback edition was published simultaneously with a paperback edition, but had a much smaller print-run, and only ran to three impressions. ***Please note that this is an ex-library copy, and the front free endpaper and half-title pages have been removed.*** Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. ***A good copy in brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners of front board also creased. Page block edges clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally, the book is also very good, with clean and unmarked pages except for the following library marks to the interior as follows: front free endpaper and half-title pages removed, and title page glued at the gutter, Suffolk County Libraries & Heritage withdrawn library stamp to the title page. Surprisingly, there are no other obvious library interventions, and very little creasing to the pages. ***In a very good original illustrated dustwrapper, with a front cover illustration from a painting by J. A. M. Whistler 'Harmony in Blue and Silver, Trouville'. The dustwrapper is complete, but the library has for some reason price-clipped the front flap. The dustwrapper remains clean, with just slight rubbing and creasing at the extremities. The spine of the dustwrapper is faded, also affecting the edges of the panels near the spine. The dustwrapper is however well preserved for an ex-library copy. ***216mm x155mm. 296 pages. ***'"The Rings of Saturn" records a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, the author's home for more than twenty years; it is also an exploration of England's pastoral and imperial past. The narrator extends the horizons of Suffolk to embrace the exploitation in the Congo witnessed by Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement, the succession to the Dragon throne in Chinese history, the lives and writings of Thomas Browne, Jorge Luis Borges, Chateaubriand, silkworm cultivation, Ireland's troubles, and the "ethnic cleansing" carried out fifty years ago in Bosnia. ***"The Rings of Saturn" follows the trails of destruction human beings have wrought on themselves, and yet it is an unremittingly fascinating blend of fiction, autobiography, and history. Its narratives are unfolded with a melancholy ever the domain of Saturn and, like its rings, created from the fragments of shattered worlds.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***An ex-library copy of the second impression of the hardcover issue of the first UK edition of W. G. Sebald's 'The Rings of Saturn'. This hardback issue was issued simultaneously with the more commonly found wrappers issue, and was probably intended mainly for library distribution (as per this copy). Copies of the first three impressions in hardcover in any condition are now scarce. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc., Books<

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Die Ringe des Saturn von W. G. Sebald (Hardcover, 1998 1./1. ex Bibliothek) - W. G. Sebald

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Die Ringe des Saturn von W. G. Sebald (Hardcover, 1998 1./1. ex Bibliothek) - hardcover

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The Rings of Saturn: an English Pilgrimage - hardcover

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Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage

Author:	Sebald, Winfried Georg
Title:	Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage
ISBN:	1860463983

In August 1992, W.G. Sebald set off on a walking tour of Suffolk, one of England's least populated and most striking counties. A long project--presumably The Emigrants, his great anatomy of exile, loss and identity--had left him spent. Initially his tour was a carefree one. Soon, however, Sebald was to happen upon "traces of destruction, reaching far back into the past", in a series of encounters so intense that a year later he found himself in a state of collapse in a Norwich hospital.

The Rings of Saturn is his record of these travels, a phantasmagoria of fragments and memories, fraught with dizzying knowledge and desperation and shadowed by mortality. As in The Emigrants, past and present intermingle: the living come to seem like supernatural apparitions while the dead are vividly present. Exemplary sufferers such as Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement people the author's solitude along with various eccentrics and even an occasional friend. Indeed, one of the most moving chapters concerns his fellow German exile--the writer Mi chael Hamburger.

"How is it that one perceives oneself in another human being or, if not oneself, then one's own precursor?" Sebald asks. "The fact that I first passed through British customs 33 years after Michael, that I am now thinking of giving up teaching as he did, that I am bent over my writing in Norfolk and he in Suffolk, that we both are distrustful of our work and both suffer from an allergy to alcohol--none of these things are particularly strange. But why it was that on my first visit to Michael's house I instantly felt as if I lived or had once lived there, in every respect precisely as he does, I cannot explain. All I know is that I stood spellbound in his high-ceilinged studio room with its north-facing windows in front of the heavy mahogany bureau at which Michael said he no longer worked because the room was so cold, even in midsummer ..."

Sebald seems most struck by those who lived or live quietly in adversity, "the shadow of annihilation" always hanging over them. The appropriately surnamed George Wyndham Le Strange, for example, remained on his vast property in increasing isolation, his life turning into a series of colourful anecdotes. He was "reputed to have been surrounded, in later years, by all manner of feathered creatures: by guinea fowl, pheasants, pigeons and quail, and various kinds of garden and song birds, strutting about him on the floor or flying around in the air. Some said that one summer Le Strange dug a cave in his garden and sat in it day and night like St. Jerome in the desert."

In Sebald's eyes, even the everyday comes to seem extraterrestrial--a vision intensified in Michael Hulse's beautiful rendition. His complex, allusive sentences are encased in several-pages-long paragraphs-- style and subject making for painful, exquisite reading. Though most often hypersensitive to human (and animal) suffering and making few concessions to obligatory cheeriness, Sebald is not without humour. At one point, paralysed by the presence of the past, he admits: "I bought a carton of chips at McDonald's, where I felt like a criminal wanted worldwide as I stood at the brightly lit counter, and ate them as I walked back to my hotel." The Rings of Saturn is a challenging nocturne and the second of Sebald's four books to appear in English. - -Kerry Fried

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EAN (ISBN-13): 9781860463983
ISBN (ISBN-10): 1860463983
Hardcover
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Publishing year: 1998
Publisher: The Harvill Press

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ISBN/EAN: 1860463983

ISBN - alternate spelling:
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Book author: winfried georg sebald, michael sebald hulse
Book title: ringe, signed, the rings saturn

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