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Toronto: Alfred A Knopf Canada, 2001. Undetermined. very good. Uncorrected Proof Copy. xiii, 352pp. Octavo. Printed wrappers with the now famous cover design of smiling lion and flying fish used for the Canadian first edition. Vertical crease along joint of the front wrapper and spine. Some minor creasing/shelfwear to edges of wrappers and a slight crease to first 6 leaves of text block, else a crisp and unmarked copy. very good A very scarce uncorrected proof of the Canadian first edition of Martel's modern classic and winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2002. Later adapted into an Oscar-nominated film by Ang Lee. Martel's second novel. 2001
Synopsis
Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel. In the story, the protagonist Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives227 days after a shipwreck, while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean. The novel was first published by Knopf Canada in September 2001, and the UK edition won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction the following year.
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- Seller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 134180
- Title
- Life of Pi
- Author
- Martel, Yann
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Books into Films|Canadian Literature|Literature|Uncorrected Proof
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Uncorrected Proof
- An uncorrected proof is a printed copy of a book that needs to be reviewed for errors and corrections. They are released prior...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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