Hard Cover
1926 · New York
by De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel; Ormsby, John; Woodberry, George Edward
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Limited edition, #41 of 3000 sets. Spines a bit toned, boards faintly soiled. Bindings tight, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1926 Hard Cover. 682 pp. Translated by John Ormbsy, with an introduction by George Edward Woodberry. Cervantes wrote that the first chapters were taken from 'the archives of La Mancha,' and the rest were translated from an Arabic text by the Moorish author Cide Hamete Benengeli. This metafictional trick appears to give a greater credibility to the text, implying that Don Quixote is a real character and that the events related truly occurred several decades prior to the recording of this account. However, it was also common practice in that era for fictional works to make some pretense of being factual, such as the common opening line of fairy tales "Once upon a time in a land far away...
(Inventory #: 2346545)