Wainewright the Poisoner

Motion, Andrew

ISBN 10: 057119401X / ISBN 13: 9780571194018

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2000

About this Item

A Near Fine copy in a Finer dust jacket of the first hardback edition of this biography, signed by the author on the title page. Dust Jacket: black matt laminated paper with colour reproduction of and old masters painting to all faces, white and blue lettering to front and spine, and white lettering to rear; black and white photo of author to rear flap; very bright and clean, no visible signs of shelf wear; not price clipped. Cover: black cloth covered boards with white lettering to spine; very bright and clean; no visible signs of shelf wear. Internally: very clean and tightly bound; no markings, inscriptions or book plates apart form the author signature (as above); some slight darkening to page edges; otherwise in excellent condition. Illustrated with 2 sets of 8 black and white plates bound in near centre. xx, 306 pp.

Seller Inventory # 003762

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wainewright the Poisoner
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 057119401X
• ISBN 13: 9780571194018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 400 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

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Synopsis

Some minor edgewear to the dust jacket. Clean, bright and tight.

About the Author

Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, and has published four celebrated biographies. His group study The Lamberts won the Somerset Maugham Award and his authorised life of Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Andrew Motion's novella The Invention of Dr Cake (2003) was described as 'amazingly clever' by the Irish Times and praised for 'brilliant and almost hallucinatory vividness' by the Sunday Telegraph. His memoir, In the Blood (2006), was described as 'the most moving and exquisitely written account of childhood loss I have ever read' in the Independent on Sunday. His most recent collection of poems is The Customs House (2012). Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009. In 2014 he received the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award.