Tom Lanoye - Zuivering - 2017
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Zuivering by Tom Lanoye is a Dutch-language first edition in a limited deluxe release, numbered 9 and signed by the author, 362 pages, published in 2017 as the oldest item, in very good condition, includes a CD and a loose print, with a uniquely “disordered” binding as described.
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This luxury edition of Tom Lanoye's novel Purification is almost as 'disordered' as the long run of the main character Gideon. The numbered and signed copies were, by the bookbinding studio Mooie Boeken of Pau Groenendijk, bound in a 'disordered' binding. Concretely, that means no two books are alike. The copy offered here, for example, reads from back to front just like a Hebrew book. So it takes some getting used to.
In the book there is a loose print from Gideon's Bookcase showing the spines of all the copies that were produced. From the print one can at least deduce that not 20 copies were made as the colophon states, but 27.
The book, with its multicolored braided reading ribbon, also includes a CD on which the author reads the book's prologue aloud.
Contrary to its genuinely very handsome appearance, the book was slipped into a plain envelope with a split pin, which did come with a copy of the spine text. In this copy, that is somewhat (fortunately not troublesome) damaged. But that, of course, also belongs to Gideon’s profession.
Both the book and the CD have been numbered, dated (the book) and signed by Lanoye. This copy bears the number 9.
Ohhh, how beautiful!
This luxury edition of Tom Lanoye's novel Purification is almost as 'disordered' as the long run of the main character Gideon. The numbered and signed copies were, by the bookbinding studio Mooie Boeken of Pau Groenendijk, bound in a 'disordered' binding. Concretely, that means no two books are alike. The copy offered here, for example, reads from back to front just like a Hebrew book. So it takes some getting used to.
In the book there is a loose print from Gideon's Bookcase showing the spines of all the copies that were produced. From the print one can at least deduce that not 20 copies were made as the colophon states, but 27.
The book, with its multicolored braided reading ribbon, also includes a CD on which the author reads the book's prologue aloud.
Contrary to its genuinely very handsome appearance, the book was slipped into a plain envelope with a split pin, which did come with a copy of the spine text. In this copy, that is somewhat (fortunately not troublesome) damaged. But that, of course, also belongs to Gideon’s profession.
Both the book and the CD have been numbered, dated (the book) and signed by Lanoye. This copy bears the number 9.
Ohhh, how beautiful!
Details
Number of Books
1
Subject
Literature
Book Title
Zuivering
Author/ Illustrator
Tom Lanoye
Condition
Very good
Publication year oldest item
2017
Edition
1st Edition, Limited edition, Special printing
Language
Dutch
Original language
Yes
Extras
Signed by author
Number of pages
362
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