Accession number:
PML 193741
Published:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1996, c1995.
Description:
605 p. ; 24 cm
Credit:
Man Booker Prize Collection, purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund and the Drue Heinz Fund, 2010.
Notes:
Originally published: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 1995.
"This is an uncorrected proof ... Publication date: 25 April 1996. Price: $26"--Front wrapper.
"0-679-44608-7"--Front flyleaf, below publisher's blurb.
"First American Edition"--T.p. verso.
Binding:
Beige printed wrappers, with pictorial dust jacket designed by Barbara de Wilde, illustrated with a photograph by Dario Mitidieri.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Man Booker Prize judge's copy, 1996: judge and chair Carmen Callil's copy, with her marks; inscribed by her on half t.p., "Only Peter Straus would have bought this book, a poor copy all around by Carmen Callil. London 3.3.2002".
Provenance:
Booker Prize collection of Peter Straus.
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