Blue Afternoon
by Boyd, William
William Boyd’s first novel, A Good Man in Africa, won a Whitbread Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award; his second, An Ice-Cream War, was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and The Blue Afternoon won the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction. Boyd lives in London.
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London : Sinclair-Stevenson, (1993). First edition. Signed by William Boyd on the title-page. "His name is Salvador Carriscant and thus begins Kay Fischer's journey into the past of this beguiling and seductive older man who claims to be her father" - "Achingly memorable" (The Times). Medium 8vo (25cm). [viii],(324),[iv]pp. Original black boards, lettered in gilt; just a hint of bruising;… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed, with an elaborate pen and ink drawing, by William Boyd on the title page. An L.A. architect is drawn into a transcontinental, turn-of-the-century murder mystery and love story in this acclaimed novel. Boyd (b.1952), a Scottish writer, is best known for his novel A Good Man in Africa (1981), which… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Blue Afternoon
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London: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition first printing. Hardback book is tight and clean with a slight lean. Boards sharp and clean, title gilt perfect. Text block clean, and toned edges. Feels carefully read. Near fine condition. Jacket is clean and straight,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1993. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This signed first edition is in very good condition with a very good jacket. Signed by the author on the title page as shown in the photo. Small area of wear present to the inside cover and tanning present to the page edges only. Otherwise an excellent clean… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Blue Afternoon : a Novel. [Los Angeles, 1936; Manila, 1902; Tongue; The First Body; The Nipa Barn; Chez Dr. Isidro Cruz; The Aero-movil; Bad Blood; A Diet of Beef Tea; On the Luneta; The House at San Teodoro; Dawn on the Pasig; Bridge at Santa M
by Boyd, William. [design, Cassandra J. Pappas, Chip Kidd, Carol Devine Carson]
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf ; Distributed by Random House, Inc., 1995., 1995. Fine. 1st American ed. ; 367 pp. ; ISBN: 067977260X, 9780679772606 ; blue cloth with gold lettering, in color decorative dustjacket ; the author's sixth novel ; "Boyd's atmospheric new novel confirms his reputation as heir to the grand narrative traditions of Joseph… Read more about this item Item Price
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London : Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 323p. ; 24cm. Subjects: Fathers and daughters ; Fiction. Item Price
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London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 9.5" by 6" . None . An excellent first impression of William Boy's award-winning novel, signed by the author. Novel by Scottish author William Boyd, winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year in 1993, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. The first edition, first impression… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Blue Afternoon: William Boyd
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London: Sinclair-Stevens, 1993. First edition, No. 10 of 150 numbered copies signed by the author. London Limited editions. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth over marbled boards. Fine in original glassine jacket. First edition, No. 10 of 150 numbered copies signed by the author. London Limited editions. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed, Limited edition. Item Price
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The Blue Afternoon
by Boyd, William
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London: Sinclair-stevenson, 1993. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Very good/very good. black cloth gilt lettering dust jacket 323 pp.
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Great Britain: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993 . Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 9.5" by 6.5". None. The scarce limited edition of this award winning novel by William Boyd signed by the author in the original glassine wrapper. Limited edition of The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd in the original publisher's quarter cloth binding and glassine dust wrapper. Signed by the author to the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Blue Afternoon
by Boyd, William
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London: Sinclair Stevenson, 1993. Tanning of page margins; slight wear to top edge of dust jacket and tiny puncture on rear panel next to spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine Plus. Item Price
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The Blue Afternoon
by William Boyd
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. A novel from the author of Whitbread winner "A Good Man In Africa." A near fine copy in printed wrappers. Item Price
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The Blue Afternoon - A Novel (Signed by the author, William Boyd)
by Boyd, William
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Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed. Signed by the author, William Boyd. First edition, Published in Great Britain,1993. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. The pages are slightly 'browned' from shelving and storage. The text remains in good condition,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Blue Afternoon
by William Boyd
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London England: Penguin, 1994. Winner of the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award. Los Angles, 1936, Kay Fischer, a young, independent and ambitious architect, is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, a compelling and enigmatic stranger who claims to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting, Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Blue Afternoon
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London: Stevenson-Sinclair, 1993. Softcover. Fine. Reprint. Trade paperback. Page edges slightly darkened, still fine in wrappers. Item Price
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The Blue Afternoon
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with publisher's material laid in. Item Price
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The Blue Afternoon
by William Boyd
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995. Hardcover. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
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The Blue Afternoon
by Boyd, William
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Great Britain: Sinclair-Stevenson. As New. 1993. First Printing. Softcover. 1856193667 . As New condition Trade Paperback; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Item Price
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