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  • THE UNUSUAL LIFE OF TRISTAN SMITH. by Carey, Peter.
    Carey, Peter.
    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: 50169
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  • THE UNUSUAL LIFE OF TRISTAN SMITH. by Carey, Peter.
    Carey, Peter.
    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: 80129
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  • FARTHING'S FORTUNES. by Wright, Richard B.
    Wright, Richard B.
    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: 61126
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