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Ajar, Emile [i.e. Roman Gary] Manheim, Ralph (translator).
Momo.
Publisher: Collins and Harvill Press, London;
Date of Publication: 1978
Stock Code: 10602
FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo, pp. [4], 182. Bound in the publisher’s salmon pink cloth with gilt spine titles. With the unclipped original black dust-jacket. A single small chip and nick to upper edge of dust-jacket. Small neat ownership inscription to ffep, A Near Fine in an unclipped Near Fine dust-jacket. Bittersweet cult classic novel in which an orphan boy is taken in by an eccentric family including a fire eater, a transvestite, a boxing champion and others. Momo was originally published in French under the title La Vie Devant Soi in 1975 and was awarded the Prix Goncourt for the best and most imaginative prose work of that year. £75.00