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Book. Octavo, 301 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Gray spine with black and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price uncut "FPT $21.00", has mild shelving wear. Boards are slightly cocked, have mild bending along the spine head and tail edges, front head fore corner and rear tail fore corner. Textblock has mild wear along the edges. Signed flat by Michael Ondaatje on the title page. Shelved in Room C. 1392752. Special Collections.

1st US Edition. Hardcover. Signed on title page. Stated First Edition. Some shelf wear, toning to dust jacket. 1992 Booker Prize.

First Edition (so stated) in Very Fine condition with complete dust jacket, also in Very Fine condition and protected in a mylar sleeve. Signed by the writer across the title page in person. A beautifully preserved copy, printed over three decades ago, in outstanding conditionperfect for any literary library Sri Lankan-born Canadian writer Ondaatje is the author of the critically acclaimed "The Collected Works of Billy the Kid." "The English Patient" was adapted to film in 1998, with the novel winning the 1992 Booker Prize, the 1992 Governor General's Award and the Golden Man Booker in 2018. In 'Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts,' reviewer JP O'Malley described Ondaatje "like coral.Ondaajte's narrative is built up slowly into towers and branches and hidden chambers, fashioning a delicate grisaille of memory and passion.Readers of Ondaatje's novels will know that he has a passion for language and an incredible ability to tease out sentences in a very sensual way." He is one of the few authors who has had a new species of spider named in his honour, the Sri-Lankan Brignolia ondaatjei.

First American edition. SIGNED by Michael Ondaatje on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Booker Prize winner and basis for the Academy Award winning film adaptation. ; 6" x 8 3/4" ; 307 pages

First US edition, first printing in first edition dust jacket; book and jacket in very attractive condition; dj is not price clipped with original $21.00 price; other than Ondaatje's signature on the title page no other inscriptions or marks; rear flap of dj has comments from Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo abd Richard Ford; stated First Edition; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

First edition, first printing. As new with as new DJ. Signed by author. Very tight binding. No marks, price not clipped. Excellent copy. Photos are of the book you will receive. Twenty percent of proceeds from sales of Third Mantis Books is donated to the World Literacy Foundation.