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The Debt to Pleasure
by LANCHESTER, John
- Used
- first
- Condition
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
London: Picador, 1996. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Original black cloth, with pictorial dust jacket; plain endpapers; [viii], 232pp. Pushed at head and tail, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced £15.99), light rubbed at edges, else Near Fine. Lanchester's first novel, winner of the 1996 Whitbread Book Award (First Novel) and the 1997 Hawthornden Prize.
Synopsis
John Lanchester was born in Hamburg in 1962. He was brought up in the Far East and educated in England. He is a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and is on the editorial board of the London Review of Books . The Debt to Pleasure (1996), won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Betty Trask Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, and a Julia Child Award. His second novel, Mr. Phillips , was published in 2000. His most recent novel is Fragrant Harbour . He lives in London.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57111
- Title
- The Debt to Pleasure
- Author
- LANCHESTER, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1996
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Octavo
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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