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Title

The alienist / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ; translated from the Portuguese with an afterword by Alfred Mac Adam ; with twelve drawings by Carroll Dunham.

Author

Machado de Assis, 1839-1908

Publication

San Francisco : Arion Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Dunham, Carroll, 1949-
• Mac Adam, Alfred J., 1941-
• Hoyem, Andrew
• Mitchell, Lewis
• Stoelzl, Peter
• Arion Press, issuing body, printer.
• Mackenzie & Harris, manufacture place.

Description

55 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 27 x 37 cm

Subject

• Mental illness > Brazil > Fiction
• Psychiatric hospitals > Brazil > Fiction
• Scientists > Brazil > Fiction

Note

• Translation of: O alienista.
• "First published ... in the journal A Estação in 1881 ... This translation is based on the version that appears in Vol. II, Conto e Teatro, of the Obra Completa, Editóra José Aguilar: Rio de Janeiro, 2nd ed. 1962, pp. 253-288"--T.p. verso.
• "This edition is limited to 250 copies for sale, numbered 1 to 250 ... signed by the artist"--P. [1].
• "Designed and produced under the direction of Andrew Hoyem ... The types are Gill Sans Medium and Bold, composed in Monotype by Lewis Mitchell and Peter Stoelzl of Mackenzie & Harris, and Gill Sans Cameo Ruled for initials and display, handset. The type and photopolymer plates for the illustrations were printed by letterpress on German mouldmade Bugra papers. This is the fifty-fifth publication of the Arion Press"--Colophon.
• Issued in slipcase.

Indexed In (note)

• Arion Press. Bibliography of the Arion Press

Provenance (note)

• Inscribed in graphite, on upper end leaf, "Carroll Dunham."

Binding (note)

• Bound in green cloth boards with pictorial light green label laid on upper board; issued with green slipcase.

Call Number

Rare Books+ 20-746

OCLC

39305391

Author

Machado de Assis, 1839-1908, author.

Title

The alienist / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ; translated from the Portuguese with an afterword by Alfred Mac Adam ; with twelve drawings by Carroll Dunham.

Publisher

San Francisco : Arion Press, 1998.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Arion Press. Bibliography of the Arion Press, 55

Provenance

Inscribed in graphite, on upper end leaf, "Carroll Dunham." NN

Binding

Bound in green cloth boards with pictorial light green label laid on upper board; issued with green slipcase. NN

Local Note

Copy in Rare Books+ 20-746 is no. 25 of 250 copies.

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Added Author

Dunham, Carroll, 1949- illustrator.

Mac Adam, Alfred J., 1941- translator, author of afterward.

Hoyem, Andrew, book designer, printer.

Mitchell, Lewis, compositor.

Stoelzl, Peter, compositor.

Arion Press, issuing body, printer.

Mackenzie & Harris, manufacture place.

Research Call Number

Rare Books+ 20-746