DON QUIXOTE by CERVANTES - 1950 Vintage Limited Edition; One of Just 1500 Made

Hand-numbered 1088 out of 1500.

This book (divided into two volumes) is in excellent condition for it’s age. There are no attached bookplates or embossed seals. There is some wear but it’s not bad. The wear that exists is cosmetic and can be easily found by perusing the photographs. Please see the photographs for best description. The book is still spectacular after over 70 years. The slipcase is in rougher shape as highlighted in the photos, but is still functional.

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Synopsis

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together-and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years.

With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel.

"The highest creation of genius has been achieved by Shakespeare and Cervantes, almost alone." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"A more profound and powerful work than this is not to be met with...The final and greatest utterance of the human mind." —Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"What a monument is this book! How its creative genius, critical, free, and human, soars above its age!" —Thomas Mann

"Don Quixote looms so wonderfully above the skyline of literature, a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live through his sheer vitality....The parody has become a paragon." —Vladimir Nabokov