2004, ISBN: 9780571216987

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around matt,b/w New York night-time c… Más…

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around matt,b/w New York night-time cityscape photographic illustrated dw/dj with capitalised,gilt-lettered author name and white-lettered title to front of dw/dj; spine/ backstrip with similarly coloured+ lettered author name and title as the front's and publisher's white-lettered colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with continuation of photograph. Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright crisp,clean without blemish/foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips appears unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp, clean/unblemished,sharp-cornered, original plain black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip,a dark orange striped headband,and immaculate plain black endpapers. UK,slim, small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-243pp [paginated] includes story without chapter numeration but author has used footnaotes as back story,a b/w facsimile reproduction illustration of page from a Warsaw telephone directory; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,a title separator page,and to the rear, 4pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation,for a book of its near 20 year-old age. It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness,cleanliness and lack of detracting faults. Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a Brooklyn stationery shop and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18th,1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, within a world of eerie premonitions. In 'Oracle Night', Paul Auster returns to one of his favorite themes: writing about writers and the act of writing. Recovering from a severe illness that has left him weak and prone to nosebleeds, struggling novelist Sidney Orr takes the suggestion of his mentor, the acclaimed novelist John Trause, and begins a story about a man who, upon considering a near-death experience as an omen (or excuse), walks out on his wife and begins a new life. Nick Bowen, Orr's protagonist, moves to Kansas City and finds work with a man engaged in creating a sort of catalogue of all known persons from a warehouse filled with phonebooks. Dressed in Goodwill clothing, Nick finds it "fitting to don the wardrobe of a man who has likewise ceased to exist--as if that double negation made the erasure of his past more thorough, more permanent." Grace, however, acts strangely soon after Sidney begins the "novel-within-a-novel" in a mysterious blue notebook. Auster uses footnotes to provide interesting backstory and develops Sidney's insecurities regarding love and fidelity, but when Sidney hits a patchy spot and writes Bowen into a corner, he (and Auster) shrugs and drops the story. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **, LONDON.FABER & FABER,2004., 5<

2002, ISBN: 9780571216987

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2004, ISBN: 0571216986

[EAN: 9780571216987], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Holt, N.Y. 06.04.2004.], 304 Seiten kleine Lagerspuren am Buch, Inhalt einwandfrei und ungelesen 419101,225870 Sprache: Englisch Gewic… Más…

[EAN: 9780571216987], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Holt, N.Y. 06.04.2004.], 304 Seiten kleine Lagerspuren am Buch, Inhalt einwandfrei und ungelesen 419101,225870 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 440 22,5 x 14,4 x 3,2 cm, Gebundene Ausgabe, Books<