The Famished Road : Signed And Lined By The Author: With A H/W Postcard Signed By The Author And The Booker Prize Shortlist 1991 Bookmark

The First UK printing published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1991. The BOOK is in near Fine condition with just a hint of toning to the text-block and the extreme page edges. Some light pushing at the spine tips. The Wrapper is complete and is in near Fine condition. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The book has been signed and lined by the author to the title page : 'A Dream can be the highest point of a life, Ben Okri'. The quotation is the last line of the book. A ticket for the signing event accompanies this book as provenance. Also loosely laid in with the book are firstly, the 1991 Booker Prize shortlist Bookmark which is in Fine condition and secondly, also loosely laid in is a Ben Okri postcard (with 'An African elegy" printed on one side ; As read by the author at the presentation of the 1991 Booker Prize). Ben Okri has H/W and signed the postcard to the writer Hunter (Davies), dated 9-4-93. Okri thanks Hunter for the 'sensitive and beautifully structured interview you wrote. I am thanking you not from the publishing point of view, but mainly from the unique way you helped me learn things about myself: for your writing was a curious mirror in which aspects of self shone from their hidden places. It showed to me that in your writing you always have a sense of the secret myth at the wellsprings of a personal life & narrative.' The postcard is protected in an archival folder. In 1991, Okri was the youngest recipient of the Booker prize. Ben Okri has recently been knighted in the recent honours list for services to literature. A sharp copy. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.