Accession number
PML 194812
Creator
McEwan, Ian.
Published
London : Jonathan Cape, 2007.
Credit line
Man Booker Prize Collection, purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund and the Drue Heinz Fund, 2010.
Notes
"A special signed limited First Edition of On Chesil Beach, of which one hundred have been quarter-bound in cloth and numbered 1 to 100, and fifty quarter-bound in leather and numbered I to L. / The patterned boards are by Thomas Lowinsky for The Curwen Press, 1928. The book has been designed by Andrew Stilwell and bound and slipcased by The Fine Bindery, Wellingborough, Northants. / This is number [...] / London Review Bookshop Limited Editions"--Limitation statement on front fly leaf.
Library has copy 2 of 100, being one of 100 copies bound in 1/4 cloth and signed by the author.
"First published in Great Britain in 2007 by Jonathan Cape"--T.p. verso.
Printer's code, t.p. verso: "2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1".
Library has copy 2 of 100, being one of 100 copies bound in 1/4 cloth and signed by the author.
"First published in Great Britain in 2007 by Jonathan Cape"--T.p. verso.
Printer's code, t.p. verso: "2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1".
Description
166 p. ; 21 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's autograph on front fly leaf, below limitation statement.
Provenance
Booker Prize collection of Peter Straus.
Binding
Green-gray and cream patterned boards with 1/4 gray cloth, in matching cloth slipcase.
Classification
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Department