Perfume by Patrick Suskind, First Edition (48 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First American Edition. Black 1/4 cloth-effect and black paper-covered boards, lettered in gold foil, red topstain, lacking dust jacket. Just a hint of shelf wear, essentially Fine/as issued, with what may be a very faded remainder mark on top edge near binding. Stated 1st American edition. 259 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Stated First American Edition. No markings. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Translated from the German by John E. Woods.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Muy Bien. 1? Edición. Tapa dura con sobrecubierta. Muy buen estado. Literatura alemana S. XX. Novela.

Tapa Blanda Con Solapas. Condition: Excelente. En Castellano. Quizá los olores evoquen el privilegio de la invisibilidad. Antes del tacto, sucede el olor, como mensajero de una esencia que sabe desaparecer en el aire y ser agente de un gran poder. La seducción que despliega el olor es implacable: se instala en nosotros y sella su poderío en los tejidos de la memoria. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille tiene su marca de nacimiento: no despide ningún olor y por ello hace temer la presencia de algún demonio. Al mismo tiempo posee un don excepcional: un olfato prodigioso que le permite percibir todos los olores del mundo.-----El precio de los gastos de envío está calculado para libros con un peso máximo de1 kg superando el kg los gastos de envió serán mayores, - Los pedidos fuera de la península: Baleares ,Canarias, Ceuta y Melilla tienen un coste adicional, consúltenos antes de realizar su pedido, los libros usados pueden tener o no firma del anterior propietario- Size: Octavo Mayor 20x12-239 Pag. Novela.

Tapa Blanda Ilustrada. Condition: Excelente. En Castellano. Quizá los olores evoquen el privilegio de la invisibilidad. Antes del tacto, sucede el olor, como mensajero de una esencia que sabe desaparecer en el aire y ser agente de un gran poder. La seducción que despliega el olor es implacable: se instala en nosotros y sella su poderío en los tejidos de la memoria. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille tiene su marca de nacimiento: no despide ningún olor y por ello hace temer la presencia de algún demonio. Al mismo tiempo posee un don excepcional: un olfato prodigioso que le permite percibir todos los olores del mundo. Desde la miseria en que nace, abandonado al cuidado de unos monjes, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille lucha contra su condición y escala posiciones sociales convirtiéndose en un afamado perfumista. Crea perfumes capaces de hacerle pasar inadvertido o inspirar simpatía, amor, compasión. Para obtener estas fórmulas magistrales debe asesinar a jóvenes muchachas vírgenes, obtener sus fluidos corporales y licuar sus olores íntimos. Su arte se convierte en una suprema e inquietante prestidigitacion. Patrick Süskind, convertido en maestro del naturalismo irónico, nos transmite una visión ácida y desengañada del hombre en un libro repleto de sabiduría olfativa, imaginación y enorme amenidad. Su persuasión iguala la de su personaje y nos propone una inmersión literaria en el arco iris natural de los olores y en los turbadores abismos del espíritu humano---El precio de los gastos de envío está calculado para libros con un peso máximo de1 kg superando el kg los gastos de envió serán mayores, - Los pedidos fuera de la península: Baleares ,Canarias, Ceuta y Melilla tienen un coste adicional, consúltenos antes de realizar su pedido, los libros usados pueden tener o no firma del anterior propietario- Size: Octavo Menor 17x11cm. Novela.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Bien. Sin Sobrecubierta. 1ª edición. Estado del libro: sin sobrecubierta. Interior de la cubierta con ligeras manchas amarillentas. NARRATIVA ALEMANA.

Condition: Como nuevo. 1ª ed. 21x13 cm.223 pp.Español.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first American edition. A clean, tight copy. Near fine in a near fine jacket. Spine showing mild vertical creasing. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Translated from the German by John E. Woods. Suskind's first novel. Source of the Tom Tykwer and German miniseries. With translations into 49 languages and more than 20 million copies sold worldwide to date, Perfume is one of the best-selling German novels of the 20th century. Winner of the World Fantasy Award and the PEN Translation Prize in 1987. F2200.

Paperback. first edition. near fine, unread paperback,

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition. This is the first book to be published by this German author in the U.S. (his first novel which has been highly-touted internationally). Vertical crease to rear flap of jacket. The first edition of the author's first novel. 255 pp. Basis for the movie of the same title. NY Times book review laid in.

Hardcover. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Ivory-colored boards with gilt and white illustration and burgundy lettering on the spine; burgundy slipcase; 235 pp. In 1738, an orphaned child is given to the monks as a charity case. Although he has no smell at all himself, he possesses an absolute sense of smell. He can smell the very composition of objects, and their history. -- WorldCat. This gorgeous book will make an incredible gift for a fan of this acclaimed novel! VG+/VG (Book is unread; slipcase has been bumped on the edges.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. UK 1st edition 1st impression, no inscriptions not price clipped Vg in vg + jacket , text block age toning universal to all copies of this 1st edition.

Condition: Bueno. 1ª edición. 237 pág Rústica con solapas Bueno Biblioteca breve Novela. Traducción de Pilar Giralt Gorina.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Made into the 2006 film. Translated from the German by John E. Woods. First edition thus. Fine in a fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, later printing - published in German as "Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Morders" by Diogenes Verlag AG in Zurich in 1985, but probably a later printing as there is a review of "Die Taube" (The Pigeon) on the front flap of the dustwrapper which was only published in 1987. The printer's code 200/93/24/29 implies a 1993 printing. This printing also has a barcode on the back panel. ***Near fine in olive green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on a paper label to the spine. Tail of spine slightly creased. Very small creases to the lower edge of the front board. The boards are very thin. Corners sharp. Boards clean and unmarked. Maps of Paris illustrate the front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Pages clean. No inscriptions. Very slight reading lean. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper that is uncreased. No tears. Spine of dustwrapper completely unfaded. Dustwrapper bright. ***190mm x125mm. 320 pages. ***'This is the story of one Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born under a fishmonger's bloody slab in eighteenth-century Paris. For his brutal birth signals the beginning of one of the strangest lives ever imagined, and a career of very violent genius. ***As a human being, Grenouille is handicapped from the start, and at the same time outstandingly gifted. His mother is executed for murder. Wet nurses refuse to nurse him. In the orphanage other boys shun him. But as he grows up in isolation two facts begin to dawn on him. One is that he is blessed with an extraordinarily sharp sense of smell. The other - the cause of his rejection - is that he has no smell of his own. Then a chance meeting with an ageing parfumier on the Pont au Change, during which he exactly replicates a perfume for the old man, sets Grenouille on the road to fame. And on the bloody part of murder. ***Part fable, part surreal fantasy, part novel of suspense, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is the work of a brilliant talent. The originality of the story, the dynamo of the writing, the supremely sensual grasp of one man's secret world, make it a novel worthy of comparison with the great European masters.' (Quote taken from the inside front flap of the dustwrapper of the first British edition) ***A later printing of the first edition in German, complete in its original dustwrapper, in very nice bright collectable condition. Ideal for someone who wants to read this classic work in the original language. ***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.

Rústica (Tapa blanda). Condition: Nuevo. Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo. SIN APENAS MARCAS DE USO LIBRO.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1st printing hardback in price clipped dustjacket. Book in near fine condition with no inscriptions, light tanning to pages because of cheap paper used by the publisher. Jacket with bit of wear and small closed tear at the top of the spine. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. I am happy to supply scans.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Translated from the German by John E. Woods. First UK edition. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. In dust jacket. 186pp. Leaves slightly age-toned as usual. A near fine copy. *** An unusually attractive first printing of one of the best-selling German novels of the 20th century. Scarce, especially in such good condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine +. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine+. 1st American Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED and inscribed by PATRICK SUSKIND on a bookplate decal affixed to half-title page $16.95 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. previous owners inscription on backside of front end page. Laid-in (not attached) are several items from 2006 film version of novel. Laid-in is a color photo SIGNED by BEN WHISHAW (played 'Jean-Baptist Grenouille'). Also laid-in is a color photo sheet SIGNED by ALAN RICKMAN (played 'Antoine Richis'); a color photo SIGNED by TOM TYKWER (the film's Director and screenwriter) ; a commemrative postal envelope SIGNED by SIAN THOMAS (played 'Madame Gaillard'); a color photo SIGNED by KATHLINE HURFURTH (played 'The Plum Girl'); a photo card SIGNED by SIMON CHANDLER (played 'Mayor of Grasse'); and a card SIGNED and inscribed by DAVID CALDER (played 'Bishop of Grasse'). Author's first book. Very scarce signature from recclusive author Suskind. Unique copy for the Suskind--Perfume fan or collector. NOTE: No international orders for this item. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Softcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Near Fine in wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is scuffed, and edges are creased and nicked. Board corners and spine ends are bumped. Spine is cocked and page block and page edges are tanned. Pages are otherwise clear, boards are clean and binding is sound. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, with just a bit of rubbing. With a corresponding publishers postcard laid in. Haunting German novel about a man who is obsessed by smell, and the mayhem he causes.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: The contents deeply age-toned. First edition (first printing). Dust wrapper over Black boards with Gilt titles to the Spine) Physically 9½" x 6¼" (0.8 kg); 186pp; Translated by John E. Woods; Includes: Maps to the lining papers; ISBN: 0241119197 || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #201130 ||.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Published by Hamish Hamilton, London; 1986. 186pp. 8vo. First UK edition, first impression. Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine. Bound in original black cloth boards with title in gilt to the spine. The binding is square and tight and in excellent condition, with no signs of damage or marks. Inside, there is some toning to the pages, but they are otherwise clean and bright, free from blemishes or wear. The book is housed in its equally smart, first issue dust jacket. It is in lovely condition, with no marking or damage to speak of. The price has been clipped, but this is the only point to note. In all, this is an exceptional example of the scarce UK first edition of one of the best-selling German novels of the 20th century. It was published one year after the German first edition, translated to English by John E. Woods. It is particularly hard to come by in as smart condition as this. It tells the tale of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, whose brutal birth signals the beginning of one of the strangest lives ever imagined, and a career of very violent genius. After his mother is executed for murder, he grows up isolated and rejected by everyone in an orphanage, aware of two things. One is that he is blessed with an extraordinarily sharp sense of smell. The other - the cause for his rejection - is that he has no smell of his own. He becomes obsessed by smell, and the mayhem he causes. Part fable, part surreal fantasy, part novel of suspense, this novel is the work of a brilliant talent. The originality of the story, the dynamo of the writing, the supremely sensual grasp of one man's secret world, make it a novel worthy of comparison with the great European masters (blurb).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First American edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket. (Traces of light rubbing to boards. ) Publisher's pictorial book card laid-in. A classic in a minor key. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

8vo., First Edition thus, with endpaper maps; pictorial ivory cloth, boards and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, red and white, a near fine copy in publisher's burgundy board slip-case. SCARCE.

8vo., First Edition thus, with endpaper maps, page-edges tanning lightly as usual; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the German edition. THE UK EDITION IS EXCESSIVELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.