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Signed by the suthor, DJ: some rubbing & edgewear; few creases & some yellowing; in protective cover. Book: some rubbing & edgewear; some yellowing; gift inscription inside; overall clean & tight. 307 pages

Hardcover in dust jacket. Later printing. Fine condition. SIGNED by Michael Ondaatje on title page next to his name. Laid in is a card from a Contemporary Author Series at Friends' Hall announcing his appearance there in December 1977. Front endpage has an inked ownership message, "Harriet W. Koch, from Al, Christmas 1996." From the Koch estate. Harriet Koch was the daughter of George Wallace Woodworth, an American choral conductor, organist, and music educator at Harvard. 8vo. 307 pp.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. First printing of the first American edition, hardcover in original jacket. A Very Good copy in a Fine jacket (foredge of book and some text marsgins have minor coffee traces).

Ninth Printing, February 1993. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Near Fine condition. Erstwhile remainder has red stripe on tail edge spine, slight specks on cloth spine, o/w unmarked. Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize. "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 of four diverse lives caught and changed and now inextricably connected by the brutal, improbable circumstances of war." [jacket copy] "THE ENGLISH PATIENT by Michael Ondaatje wears the triple crown: it is profound, beautiful and heart-quickening."--Toni Morrison. "In this masterful novel, Michael Ondaatje weaves a beautiful and light-handed prose through the mingled histories of people caught up in love and war. A rich and compelling work of fiction."--Don DeLillo. "THE ENGLISH PATIENT is an exotic, consuming, and richly inspired novel of passion. In its elegance and its satisfactions it resembles no book I know."--Richard Ford. Bright hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp deckle edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in an intact NF jacket; a typically Fine Knopf production.

Size: 8.5"x 5.5". 307 pages. Light tan cloth with red lettering. During the final moments of WW2. In a deserted Italian villa, 4 people come together.

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!

London: Bloomsbury, 1992 VG+/VG. 8vo. original blue boards gilt (gift inscription to half title, else fine) in dustwrapper priced £14.99 net (top edge rubbed with a couple of short closed tears, original bookseller's label to rear panel); pp. [x], 310 (last blank). A very good copy of the true first edition (10987654321] in the first state dustwrapper. . First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG.

A book collector's prize: Unread copy, first edition, no markings or blemishes. Jacket wrapped in mylar.

First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Booker Prize winning novel that was made into a powerful Oscar Award winning film with Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Willem Dafoe. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A very fresh copy of this modern classic.