The Luminaries: A Novel (Man Booker Prize)
by Eleanor Catton
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316074314
- ISBN 13
- 9780316074315
- Seller
-
Tomball, Texas, United States
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About This Item
First US Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine first state dust jacket (no Booker Prize blurb) , with only a slight wrinkle to the back cover and trivial rubbing to the spine ends and lower edges, else as new and unread. A fantastic copy of this Booker Prize winning novel, uncommon in this condition and in the first printing. Not remaindered, not price clipped ($27.00 intact), not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.
Synopsis
ELEANOR CATTON was born in 1985 in London, Ontario, and raised in New Zealand. Her internationially celebrated first novel, The Rehearsal , won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Betty Trask Award, and the NZ Society of Authors' Best First Book Award, was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Writers Prize, and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. She holds an MFA from the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was also an adjunct professor. She currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3405
- Title
- The Luminaries: A Novel (Man Booker Prize)
- Author
- Eleanor Catton
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316074314
- ISBN 13
- 9780316074315
- Publisher
- Little, Brown And Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013-10
- Keywords
- First Edition, Hardcover
Terms of Sale
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA
Bryan H. Young D.V.M.dba Grayshelf Books, 19111 Desert Eagle Dr., Tomball, Tx 77377Email - bhydvm@gmail.comWe accept payment by Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, checks, or money orders.Texas residents please add 8% sales tax.We guarantee all books to be as described.Additional scans of books will be provided upon request.
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- Fine
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