La Nekonata Konato (The Unknown Acquaintance) (Signed copy)
Signed by Douglas P Boatman, a mystery novel in Esperanto
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Printing Details
Second edition. Paperback. 20.5 × 14cm, 122pp. The book is in Esperanto.
Signed and dedicated by Douglas P Boatman, and dated 1978.
Douglas Boatman's La Nekonata Konato is a mystery novel, first published in 1932 by Heroldo de Esperanto, Cologne, and this second edition os a photographic reproductrion of the first edition. The author was born in 1892, and servied in the Great War in Gallipoli , Egypt , Palestine , France and Belgium . In 1926 he became the first president of the Esperanto Society of Southend-on-Sea and in 1928 the first secretary of Rotary Friends of Esperantists.
The book centres around a man called Marko Monington, who promises his dying wife never to love another woman. After her death, he does fall for a younger woman and becomes engaged to her. He also befriends the mysterious Mr Vincent who doesn't get in with his new fiance...
Condition
This copy is in very good condition but with some spotted foxing to the page's fore edge.
ISBN
8787089130
Price
£40.00
