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THE UNUSUAL LIFE OF TRISTAN SMITH.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A 'vaguely futuristic' post-modern picaresque novel by this Booker Prize winning writer. Glossary. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-679-43882.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 50169More details Price: $16.50 -
THE UNUSUAL LIFE OF TRISTAN SMITH.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Faber & Faber, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A 'vaguely futuristic' post-modern picaresque novel by this Booker Prize winning writer. SIGNED on the title page. Glossary. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-571171974.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (light toning)
Book ID: 80129More details Price: $30.00 -
FARTHING'S FORTUNES.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, (1976) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, one which "sees our hero (seduced at 15 by his amorous guardian) fleeing rural Canada to set forth on a lifelong journey of adventure - a search which takes him to the bustling, immigrant-filled New York City of the 1890s; to the Klondike Gold Rush; to Europe, where he runs into the "war to end all wars"; and to the rail yards and hobo jungles of the Great Depression. . . a picaresque tale that is a triumph of the comic imagination." SIGNED on the title page. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-7705-14332.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61126More details Price: $35.00