The conflicts between love and hate, good and evil, and life and art are explored in a portrait of Alaric Darconville, a twenty-nine-year-old professor at Quinsy College--a woman's college in Virginia--who falls in love with and is jilted by one of his students
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Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, ABAA/ILAB, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, second printing of Theroux's second novel, nominated for the National Book Award and a perpetually underappreciated literary masterpiece. New York: Doubleday and Company, 1981. Publisher's original black cloth boards, titled in gilt; pp. xi, [3], 704, [1]. A very good copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding firm, light shelfwear and rubbing to boards, faint remainder spray to bottom edge of text block. Minor crease to the first few pages, else internally clean and fine. Jacket shows some general shelfwear, scratch to front panel and a few closed tears, reinforced with tape on the inside. Protected in archival mylar. Seller Inventory # ABE-1741878646509
Seller: Lost Books, AUSTIN, TX, U.S.A.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket. 704 p. Audience: General/trade. Seller Inventory # Alibris.0017108
Seller: Book Stage, Stratford, ON, Canada
HC. First Edition xi, 704 pp., One of the top 99 list of Anthony Burgess. Black cloth over board, illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth, Exlibris on front paste-down, otherwise near fine. Dust jacket price clipped, worn along edges, small tear in gutter, protected with mylar clear cover. Seller Inventory # 993867
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Sea Captain's House, Savannah, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. This book is in very fine shape, with just one small mark on bottom of back cover. Book jacket in excellent shape and book is signed by author to someone. Page 483 has the special pixelated square. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 23
Seller: Lost Books, AUSTIN, TX, U.S.A.
704 p. Audience: General/trade. Fine in fine dust jacket. Mild edge wear to jacket, now in mylar. Seller Inventory # Alibris.0018262
Seller: first state books, Corsham, WILTS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good, with some softness to extremities, in similar wrapper, with some corresponding rubbing to extremities and a little creasing. Overall a bright copy, with wrapper housed in vintage Brodart, with Autographed Copy belly band. Signed to title page. NB this is the scarce first state with pixelated square on page 483. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 98863
Quantity: 1 available