CHATTERTON (First edition - first impression, Inscribed and Signed by the author)

Peter Ackroyd

ISBN 10: 0241123488 / ISBN 13: 9780241123485

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1987

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First impression of the true first edition - this copy Inscribed and Signed by the author on the title page. ***very good in brick-red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Top corner of front board bumped. No reading creases to the spine and no reading lean. Spine tight. Internally near fine with the author's inscription on the front free endpaper: 'To Carol, Happy Christmas 1988, from Peter Ackroyd, London, 3/11/88 - no other inscriptions or annotations. Pages clean. Paper stock lightly tanned as usual (cheap paper stock used). No creases or tears. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which is unpriced (export variant). No chips, creases or tears. Head of spine of dustwrapper uncreased. Spine colour of dustwrapper unfaded. Dustwrapper bright and clean. ***240mm x165mm. 234 pages. ***'What is the mystery of Thomas Chatterton? A young poet and elderly female novelist try to decode the clues found within an eighteenth-century manuscript, only to discover that their investigation is disclosing other secrets for which there is no solution. ***Peter Ackroyd's "Chatterton" is about death. It is about plagiarism. It is about the nature of poetry. "Chatterton" is at once both tragic and profoundly comic, a meditation on human destiny and a satire on human folly.' (Quotes taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the true first edition, in ts original dustwrapper, in nice collectable condition - this copy Inscribed and Signed by the author on the title page. ***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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CHATTERTON (First edition - first impression, Inscribed and Signed by the author)
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241123488
• ISBN 13: 9780241123485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: First Impression
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • First Editions

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First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. A novel with three intertwined stories: the story of Thomas Chatterton, the eighteenth-century forger, the story of George Meredith, who posed for the well-known nineteenth-century painting of Chatterton's death, and the story of two twentieth-century writers investigating an eighteenth-century manuscript. vi , 234 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

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