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The Inverted World
by Priest, Christopher
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harper & Row, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First U.S. edition. 8vo. 310pp. Light blue boards with grey cloth backing. Very good (+), with moderate foxing to boards (esp. the grey cloth), light foxing to deckled textblock fore-edge, former owner's name neatly inked on front pastedown. Else clean, square, and tightly bound. Unclipped very near fine jacket has original "$7.95" price on front flap. Jacket design by Sag Harbor Art Works. Most commonly encountered as the inferior book club variant, true American firsts being surprisingly elusive.
Synopsis
Christopher Priest was born in Cheshire, England. He has published eleven novels, three short-story collections, and a number of other books, including critical works, biographies, novelizations, and children’s nonfiction. In 1996 Priest won the World Fantasy Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Prestige , which was adapted into a film by Christopher Nolan in 2006. His most recent novel, The Separation , won both the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Science Fiction Association Award. Priest and his wife, the writer Leigh Kennedy, live in Hastings, England, with their twin children. John Clute was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1940, but has lived most of his life in England. He has won three Hugo Awards for his nonfiction. Recent work includes Appleseed , a novel, The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror , and Canary Fever: Reviews.
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- Bookseller
- Dividing Line Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001106
- Title
- The Inverted World
- Author
- Priest, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1974
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Ridgewood, New York
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