Published by Bloomsbury, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 22/05/1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Condition: VeryGood. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 22/05/1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Bahamut Media, Reading, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.
Published by Bloomsbury, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 1.46.
Published by Bloomsbury, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Condition: Fine. Like New condition. Great condition, but not exactly fully crisp. The book may have been opened and read, but there are no defects to the book, jacket or pages. 1.46.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, United Kingdom
First Edition
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Black cover with black lettering on spine and contents in very good clean condition. Dust jacket is sound with very slight signs of edge wear. Used.
Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Books of the World, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Bloomsbury, April 1997. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Black cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine and bound-in black ribbon bookmark. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with slight reading wear to edges and corners. No tears. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 357 pages. "The whole purpose of magic is the fulfillment and intensification of desire," claims the ventriloquist-narrator as he tells his stories of love and catastrophe. The novel is a parable of miscegenation and racial exclusiveness, of nature defying culture and of the rebellious nature of love. Winner of the Whitbread Award for best first novel. In Melville's ambitious and richly realized debut set in modern-day Guyana, religious, social and philosophical tensions beset all the characters. Two illicit love affairs are the vertebrae of an absorbing story set against the background of colonial life in exotic surroundings. One doomed romance is the adulterous liaison between Chofy McKinnon, a half-Scot, half-Indian, cattle rancher, and Rosa Mendelson, a British scholar researching Evelyn Waugh's visit to the country in the 1930s. Chofy meets Rosa on a trip to Guyana's capital, Georgetown, to see his aunt Wifreda, a hospitalized old woman on the verge of going blind. As Wifreda reminisces about her childhood, the narrative plunges into the story of the previous generation, telling of an incestuous affair between Chofy's uncle Danny and Beatrice, Danny's sister. Wifreda deliberately betrays Beatrice, who, humiliated, exiles herself to Canada. Beatrice also blames the British missionary Father Napier, an authoritarian clergyman who clashes with Danny's father and tries to counter the superstitious characters' belief in witchcraft (Beatrice curses Wifreda, who believes that is the reason she is losing her eyesight years later) with church doctrine. By the time Melville returns to the parallel tale of forbidden love between Chofy and Rosa, she's not just unfolding two compelling love stories but is also continuing to explore the discord between the foreign and the indigenous, the fear of the primitive colliding with the arrogance of the enlightened. Melville's nuanced characterizations, fluid prose, apt imagery and beautifully understated dialogue augment her skill as a raconteur. An unsentimental but moving narrative about the pain of longing, the book is mystical yet fiercely rationalist, ideological while coolly above politics and, despite a somewhat contrived ending, brilliant, witty and complicated.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Philip Emery, Bridlington, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing, 359 pages, jacket illustration by Emma Parker.
Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st ed. Binding tight; dust jacket not price-clipped. Almost as-new. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket.
Published by Bloomsbury, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Signature Firsts, Brecon, POWYS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine first printing in fine dustwrapper. Essentially an as-new, unread copy but now over 20 years old. No obvious blemishes. As an enthusiastic collector myself I make every effort to provide a high level of service. Enquiries welcomed. Paypal accepted.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1997. 1st ed. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1997. 1st ed. Hardcover. . . . .
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, UK, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: James Hulme Books, Stourbridge, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Well bound in clean black cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Corners and spine ends all fine. Text pages and end papers are all clean with no markings or inscriptions and appear to be unread. D/J is unclipped and protected in removable clear cover. Despatched same or next working day in protective packaging.
Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Purpora Books, Comox, BC, Canada
First Edition
Hard Cover In Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Plus. First Edition, First Printing. Ribbon marker. Winner of the Whitbread Award for First Novel. 357 pages.
Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in a Very Good + Dust-Jacket which has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped and this copy has NO previous owner's names or inscriptions present.This copy has the front endpaper slightly peeling away from the binding.Contents of the book remain clean internally and the dust-jacket comes well protected in a removable cover sleeve.8vo 357pp First UK Edition 1st Impression.
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, UK, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: James Hulme Books, Stourbridge, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Well bound in clean black cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Corners and spine ends all fine. Text pages and end papers are all clean with no markings or inscriptions and appear to be unread. D/J is unclipped and protected in removable clear cover. Despatched same or next working day in protective packaging.
Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. This is a Fine Copy of this hardcover book in a Fine Dust-Jacket.(AS NEW) Not price clipped and this copy has been SIGNED by the Author without a dedication to any person on the Title Page (Flat Signed) The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Lovely clean bright unfaded copy.The dust-jacket comes well protected in a cover sleeve.Stunning copy for the collector,8vo 357pp First Edition 1st Impression. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Shade of the Cottonwood, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine unread condition uncorrected proof. Binding very tight and coverwraps free of reading creases. Light soiling some interior pages and outside textblock. A few gaps within textblock. Else as new.
Published by Bloomsbury, [London], 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second book and first novel, winner of the Whitbread Award for best first novel. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#160291).
Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Purpora Books, Comox, BC, Canada
First Edition Signed
Hard Cover In Dust Jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Winner of the Whitbread Award for First Novel. Signed by this British author on title page. 357 pages. Signed by Author.
Published by Great Britain, Bloomsbury, 1997., 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Antiquariat Buchkauz, Herzogenburg, Austria
First Edition
gr. 8ø, Condition: Gut. first edition,. 355 pp., S. hardcover with dust cover, in very good condition, Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.
Published by Bloomsbury, UK, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Fiction First, Congleton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. A fine unread 1st impression in a fine dw.
Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine, unread copy in fine, unclipped dustjacket. Acclaimed, Whitbread award-winning first novel (author's second book).
Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Goldring Books, Eastbourne, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Page marker bound in. Winner of the 1997 Whitbread Award and the AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. A novel which spans nearly a century and conjures up vivid pictures of savannah, forest and city life in South America and unforgettable characters illuminate the theme and plot. The narrator is the ventriloquist who weaves together his stories of love and catastrophe. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2C Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition (ARC). Bottom edge just a touch soiled thus near fine -- illus. wraps. 'UNCORRECTED PROOF', i.e. ADVANCE READING COPY of this acclaimed, Whitbread award-winning first novel.
Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st. First British edition. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Black ribbon bookmark. 5 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches. 357 pages.
Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: MHO - Collectors' Books, Fittleworth, Pulborough, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, unread, mint condition, not price clipped, no owner's name or other inscription, D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve.This copy purchased new by me upon publication.
Published by Bloomsbury, UK, 1997
ISBN 10: 0747531501 ISBN 13: 9780747531500
Seller: Fiction First, Congleton, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. A fine unread 1st impression in a fine dustwrapper, Signed by the Author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).