A MAN IN FULL: A NOVEL (First UK edition - first impression)

First impression of the first UK edition, with the full number-string sequence including the no. "1": 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 on the printer's page. ***Near fine in pictorial colour-illustrated wraparound designed boards with red and black titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No creases or tears. With a black and white panoramic cityscape illustrated double title-page. ***In a near fine colour illustrated wraparound dustwrapper, with a die-cut circle cutaway (as designed) to show the eye of the man in the suit underneath on the illustrated front board. Extremities of dustwrapper just very slightly rubbed and creased. No chips or tears. Spine of dustwrapper slightly faded. Dustwrapper otherwise bright. ***742 pages. 242mm x 162mm. ***'A decade ago, "The Bonfire of the Vanities" defined an era - and established Tom Wolfe as the prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. Now the master is back with a pitch-perfect coast-to-coast portrait of a wild and woolly, no-holds-barred, multifarious country on the cusp of the millennium. ***The setting is Atlanta, Georgia - a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 29,000 acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife - and a half-empty office complex with a staggering load of debt. ***Networks of illegal asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real estate syndicates, the cast-off first wives of the corporate elite - Wolfe shows us contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him its most admired novelists. Charlie Croker's deliverance from his tribulations provides an unforgettable denouement to the most widely awaited, hilarious, and telling novel america has seen in ages - Tom Wolfe's outstanding achievement to date.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the first UK edition, in its original dustwrapper in near fine, bright, collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…