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SQUARE CLEAN BEIGE BOARDS WITH SHARP CORNERS,DJ FINE WITH NO TEARS OR WEAR ISSUES,INTERIOR FLAWLESS,$21.00 ORIGINAL PRICE,REMAINDER MARK ON BOTTOM

8vo. 302 pages; 307 with acknowledgments . Cream boards, tan cloth spine with copper titles, In a pictorial DJ with the correct $21 price present; FPT; date 10/92; and only Morrison, DeLillo and Ford comments to rear cover; mylar protective covering on the jacket. New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1992. Hardcover. Condition: Fine; clean; bright and tight. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Highly praised love story set in Africa before the outbreak of WWII. Basis for the Academy Award winning movie of the same name. Excellent copy.

First edition stated. First state dust jacket with $21.00 price and only Morrison, DeLillo and Ford comments to rear cover. 6 x 8 1/2 Book; slight bumping to top rear board edge else fine, free of marks, appears unread. Dust jacket ($21.00) has minor bumping to spine ends with 1" crease to bottom front cover. Color sharp. Under archival quality mylar cover. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box.

1992 Knopf Stated First Edition of this instant classic turned into film! A NF/NF copy with unclipped DJ.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION AND PRINTING. The critically revered, immensely gifted author's Booker Prize-winning novel. Provided the basis for the Academy Award-winning movie of the same name starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche. "During the final moments of World War II, in a deserted Italian villa, four people come together: a young nurse, her will broken, all her energy focussed on her last, dying patient, a man in whom she has seen something "she wanted to learn, to grow into and hide in".the patient: an unknown Englishman, survivor of a plane crash, his mind awash with a life's worth of secrets and passions.a thief whose "skills" have made him one of the war's heroes, and one of its casualties.an Indian soldier in the British army, an expert at bomb disposal whose three years at war have taught him that "the only thing safe is himself." Slowly they begin to reveal themselves to each other, the stories of their pasts and of the present unfolding in scene after haunting scene, taking us into the Sahara, the English countryside, down the streets of London during the Blitz, into the makeshift army hospitals of Italy, and through the battered gardens and rooms of the villa." 307 pages. Original $21.00 price on DJ front interior flap and Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo and Richard Ford blurbs on DJ rear cover. LF

First American edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Chip Kidd. His 8th book & 5th work of fiction. He won the 1992 Booker Prize for this book. It was the basis for the 1996 film which received 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Director. As new book in an as new dust jacket. A beautiful copy!

NEAR FINE IN FINE D.J. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

DJ in archival cover. Stated first edition.

307 pg. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Book shows light wear with spine slightly cocked. Dust jacket shows moderate wear with a few very small nicks and tears at top and at top front corner. Binding is solid and text is clean. Signed on title page with short inscription by Michael Ondaatje. First Edition (stated) 1992.

New York, NY: Knopf Publishing Group, 1992. First edition. 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near fine in very good dust jacket. SIGNED by author on title page (signature only). 1st edition, 10th printing. Dust jacket has mild edgewear and a closed tear at the top of the front panel. Book has minor softening to the base of the spine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 307 p. Audience: General/trade. Previous owner's name and blindstamp on the first free endpaper. The Booker Prize-winning novel and basis for the movie by the same name by the Sri Lanka Ratna-winning author (an Officer of the Order of Canada) of 'The Cat's Table' and 'Anil's Ghost'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.