Accession number
PML 193305
Creator
Carey, Peter, 1943-
Published
New York : Harper & Row, c1988.
Credit line
Man Booker Prize Collection, purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund and the Drue Heinz Fund, 2010.
Notes
Originally published: St. Lucia, Australia : University of Queensland Press, 1988.
U.S. advance reading copy of the first American edition, using the text from the U.K. proofs; includes chapter 74, entitled "A degree from Oxford", which does not appear in the published texts of the first Australian and U.K. editions.
"...this preprint...has been offset from the galleys of the British edition"--Printed on first leaf.
"Advance reading copy"--Front wrapper.
"...Publication date: May, 1988 ... LC87-46124/ISBN 0-06-015903-1 ... This is an advance reading copy from uncorrected proofs."--Rear wrapper.
Chapter 87 misnumbered 88.
U.S. advance reading copy of the first American edition, using the text from the U.K. proofs; includes chapter 74, entitled "A degree from Oxford", which does not appear in the published texts of the first Australian and U.K. editions.
"...this preprint...has been offset from the galleys of the British edition"--Printed on first leaf.
"Advance reading copy"--Front wrapper.
"...Publication date: May, 1988 ... LC87-46124/ISBN 0-06-015903-1 ... This is an advance reading copy from uncorrected proofs."--Rear wrapper.
Chapter 87 misnumbered 88.
Description
516 p. ; 24 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by the author on t.p.
Provenance
Booker Prize collection of Peter Straus.
Binding
Pictorial wrappers designed by Fred Marcellino.
Classification
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Department