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Nights at the Circus.
by CARTER, Angela
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth Press,, 1984. Is she fact, or fiction? First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the title page, "for Robert - best wishes, Angela Carter, September '84", with a signed promotional postcard loosely inserted. This title won the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and in 2006 was successfully adapted for the stage. Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Head of spine just bumped, tiny of wear to lower edge of rear cover, contents uniformly toned with a few spots to edges; slightly sunned spine panel creased at head, trivial foxing to head of flaps, unclipped, fresh and bright: a near-fine copy in like jacket.
Synopsis
ANGELA CARTER was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance , was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop , won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions , the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in Febuary 1992.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 162971
- Title
- Nights at the Circus.
- Author
- CARTER, Angela
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth Press,
- Date Published
- 1984
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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