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This listing is for a stated first edition hardcover of The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, presenting a Near Fine+ condition book in a Fine dust jacket. The book shows some black ink marking on the bottom edge of the text block near the spine and a small chip on the bottom of the front pastedown. Aside from these points, the text is clean and free of markings. The binding and hinges remain strong and sound, though the bottom edges of the hardcover boards exhibit some rubbing with a few minor dings along the top edges. The dust jacket is housed in a Demco mylar book jacket cover and bears a "Winner of the Book Prize" sticker on the front, adding a distinctive collector s appeal. The English Patient is a significant literary work by Michael Ondaatje that won the 1992 Booker Prize and was adapted into an acclaimed 1996 film. The novel intertwines the stories of four diverse characters during World War II in Italy, exploring themes of identity, love, and loss. Ondaatje s evocative storytelling and rich character development have cemented this book as a staple in contemporary Canadian literature and international literary discussions. This edition s condition and notable features make it a valuable addition for collectors and fans of the author alike.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. With "New" ink stamp on second page.

Knopf, 1992. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Near fine jacket..

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., A Borzoi Book, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1992. "Third Printing, October 1992" [stated] of First U. S. Edition (the first printing of which came out on October 15, 1992). Fine in As New Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, off-white, tight, straight and square, with gray topstain, deckled fore-edges and no markings of any kind, except prior owner's book plate on front free endpaper. The Binding is off-white quarter cloth to beige boards, all of uniform color, with bright scarlet endpapers, the author's initials embossed in bright copper on the front board, bright copper title, etc., to spine, and all corners square and sharp. The first issue Dust Jacket (price of $21, date 10/92 on lower rear flap, and review comments by just Morrison, DeLillo and Ford) is flawless and bright, with the original price ($21.00) intact on the front flap, and a silver disk announcing the book won the Booker Prize. See photos. 307 pages. 5 7/8" x 8 5/8". True first printing was by McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, September, 1992. Set in Egypt during the North African Campaign of World War 2 and in Italy during the Italian Campaign, this espionage novel won the 1992 Booker Prize, the 1992 Governor General's Award, and the 2018 Golden Man Booker Award. A main character in the story is loosely based on the real life László de Almásy de Zsadány et Törökszentmiklós, an Hungarian aristocrat, explorer and spy. The novel was the basis for the 1996 Academy Award winning film starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Colin Firth, Naveen Andrews and Juliette Binoche. ISBN 10: 0679416781 / ISBN 13: 9780679416784

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, inc., 1992. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo. 307 pp, stated First Edition, Binding tight and square, pages clean, unmarked, and fresh, beige cloth-back & lighter beige papered boards crisp and unworn, unclipped, illustrated DJ in protector. 6" x 8.7" boards. .

New York: Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0679416781 . Bumped corners. ; First edition stated. Grey top edge. ; 1.2 x 8.4 x 5.7 Inches; 307 pages .

True first edition, first printing. States first edition on cp with no later printings indicated. Book Is Free of former owner writing or bookplates. Near fine in near fine Non price clipped ($21.00) first state jacket: Dust Jacket (price of $21, date 10/92 on lower rear flap, and review comments by just Morrison, DeLillo and Ford). Tight clean book with minor push to bottom edges and minor push on several bottom margins in front of book, not a major issue. THIS BOOK IS IN OUR POSSESSION. WE SHIP MOST BOOKS SIX DAYS A WEEK AND WILL CONFIRM WITH TRACKING NUMBER FOR DOMESTIC ORDERS OR CUSTOMS NUMBER FOR NON DOMESTIC; 8vo.

The book condition is NF, cloth on spine is wrinkled. The dust jacket is Fine. 0.0

Brilliant novel by Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje set in an Italian villa. Michael Ondaatje's three previous novels have each been met with the highest praise: for their startling narrative inventiveness, the richness of their imagery and emotion, and the spellbinding quality of their language. When In the Skin of a Lion was published in 1987, Carolyn Kizer, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Ondaatje "a beautiful writer. brilliantly gifted". And Tom Clark wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that "Ondaatje handles fiction with the deceptive touch of a magician". Now, with The English Patient, he gives us his most stunningly original and lyric novel yet. 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. And with these stories, Ondaatje weaves a complex tapestry of image and emotion, recollection and observation: the paths and details offour diverse lives caught and changed and now inextricably connected by the brutal, improbable circumstances of war.

Quarter bound gray cloth, 307pp. Gently read copy. Dustjacket price $21.00. Winner of the 1992 Booker Award. Basis for award-winning film.