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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First American edition, stated. First printing. Hardcover. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Quarter black over gray paper-covered boards, with silver spine lettering. Publisher's original price of $24.00 on front jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean, unread copy. Octavo, 355 pages. Translated from the German by John E. Woods. THE DOG KING is set in postwar Bavaria and follows a young man s descent through a devastated landscape ruled by a deranged baron. Christoph Ransmayr (b. 1954) is an Austrian novelist known for blending myth and history; he shared the European Union's Aristeion Prize with Salman Rushdie. This is his second novel published in English translation. [Ferry/0].