Accession number
PML 193303
Creator
Carey, Peter, 1943-
Published
London : Faber and Faber, 1988.
Credit line
Man Booker Prize Collection, purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund and the Drue Heinz Fund, 2010.
Notes
Imprint from cover and t.p. verso.
Proof of the first U.K. edition, notable for the inclusion of chapter 74, entitled "A degree from Oxford", which does not appear in the published texts of the first Australian and U.K. editions.
Uncorrected proof, with photoset mock-up of t.p., indicating layout of the final design with the words "Artwork", "Logo"; with the words "Title page" written in by hand in the original.
"Probable publication date: 18 April 1988 ... Uncorrected advance proofs"--Cover.
Proof of the first U.K. edition, notable for the inclusion of chapter 74, entitled "A degree from Oxford", which does not appear in the published texts of the first Australian and U.K. editions.
Uncorrected proof, with photoset mock-up of t.p., indicating layout of the final design with the words "Artwork", "Logo"; with the words "Title page" written in by hand in the original.
"Probable publication date: 18 April 1988 ... Uncorrected advance proofs"--Cover.
Description
516 p. ; 22 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by the author on half t.p.
Provenance
Booker Prize collection of Peter Straus.
Binding
Green printed wrappers.
Classification
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Department