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

3 small stains on bottom of page

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

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 307 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects Italy Florence ; Fiction. Social aspects. World War, 1939-1945 ; Fiction. Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945). Authors, Canadian 21st century. Authors, Canadian 20th century. Nurses ; Fiction. War victims ; Fiction. Man-woman relationships ; Fiction. 1 Kg.

27th edition. 307 pages. 8.50x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.