The Game (First American Edition)

A.S. Byatt

Published by Scribner, New York, 1967

About this Item

New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1967. First printing, first American edition with Scribner s A 2.68 [MC] on copyright page. Hardcover. Full black cloth, gilt spine lettering. Near fine in a fine dust jacket, with a slight spine slant and faint crease to cloth spine. Publisher s original price intact on jacket flap ($4.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 281 pages. The Game is Byatt s second novel and third book overall, following her critical study Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch (1965) and her debut novel "The Shadow of the Sun" (1964). THE GAME explores the complex relationship between two sisters, one a novelist, the other a scholar, whose shared childhood imaginative games evolve into rivalries in art, love, and life. Byatt (1936 2020) was a Booker Prize winning novelist, best known for Possession (1990), later adapted into a major film; she published more than a dozen novels and collections of stories during her career. The Game marks her second work of fiction and helped establish the intellectual, self-reflexive style that would become her signature.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Game (First American Edition)
• Publisher: Scribner, New York
• Publication Date: 1967
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • British and Irish Literature