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Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First American edition, stated. First printing. Hardcover. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Quarter black over gray paper-covered boards, with silver spine lettering. Publisher's original price of $24.00 on front jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean, unread copy. Octavo, 355 pages. Translated from the German by John E. Woods. An alternative-history novel set in a devastated postwar Central Europe which follows a blacksmith's son drawn into the violent world of the region's deranged baron. The novel, originally published in German as Morbus Kitahara, won the 1996 Aristeion Prize, shared by Ransmayr with Salman Rushdie, and was translated into English by John E. Woods. Ransmayr (b. 1954) is an Austrian novelist known for blending myth and history. This is his second novel published in English translation. [Ferry/0S].…