Oil Notes (Signed First U.K. Edition)

Rick Bass (author); Elizabeth Hughes (illustrator)

ISBN 10: 0002156091 / ISBN 13: 9780002156097

Published by Williams Collins, London, 1989

About this Item

First printing of the first U.K. edition (true first edition). A very fine (as-new) copy in a very fine (as-new) jacket. A clean copy in an unclipped jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. SIGNED by Bass on title page (as pictured). F-1786.

Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-1786

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Oil Notes (Signed First U.K. Edition)
• Publisher: Williams Collins, London
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002156091
• ISBN 13: 9780002156097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

Rick Bass brings a lyric imagination to the oil geologist's craft. Digging for oil is a way of digging deep into human experience, a subterranean exploration of self. And nothing escapes this writer's eye or imagination. 20 line drawings.

About the Author

RICK BASS is the author of many acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. His first short story collection, The Watch, set in Texas, won the PEN/Nelson Algren Award, and his 2002 collection, The Hermit's Story, was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. The Lives of Rocks was a finalist for the Story Prize and was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the Rocky Mountain News. Bass's stories have also been awarded the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Award and have been collected in The Best American Short Stories.