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NEAR FINE IN FINE D.J. THERE IS A LIGHT DAMP STAIN AT THE LOWER FORE-EDGE CORNERS OF THE LAST TWO PAGES WITH SOME FAINT OFFSETTING OF THE RED COLOR OF THE END PAPER ON THE LAST PAGE. AN EXCELLENT COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

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

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.

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).

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.

302 pages. 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.

First American Edition. Near fine in a virtually fine DJ. (Faint damp stain at upper edge of cloth on rear cover. Tiny spot on last blank. Faint stain on inside of DJ. Not discernable from reverse. Trace of faint foxing at edges. ) Booker Prize winning novel & basis for the Oscar winning film.

KNOPF. NY 1992. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0679416781 . First American Edition. Near fine in a virtually fine DJ. (Faint damp stain at upper edge of cloth on rear cover. Tiny spot on last blank. Faint stain on inside of DJ. Not discernable from reverse. Trace of faint foxing at edges. ) Booker Prize winning novel & basis for the Oscar winning film. .

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.