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Peeping Tom.
by JACOBSON, HOWARD:
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus. 1984 1st edition. Review Copy.. 6.0 x 9.0 inches. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Review copy slip and signed slip loose in front. Else a very clean and tight copy. 266pp. “Wickedly erotic, ferociously funny amalgam of the psychological thriller, the rural idyll and the literary novel of romance”.
Synopsis
Howard Jacobson is the author of four works of nonfiction and several novels, including The Finkler Question , which won the Man Booker Prize; The Mighty Walzer , which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for comic writing; and Who's Sorry Now? , which was long-listed for the Booker Prize. He has a weekly column for The Independent and regularly reviews and writes for The Guardian , The Times, and The Evening Standard . Jacobson has also done several specials for British television. He lives in London.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85223
- Title
- Peeping Tom.
- Author
- JACOBSON, HOWARD:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus. 1984 1st edition. Review Copy.
- Keywords
- Literature HOWARD JACOBSON, Peeping Tom, signed, review copy, dustwrapper first edition
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About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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