My Life As a Fake
by CAREY, Peter
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0571216188
- ISBN 13
- 9780571216185
- Seller
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 2003. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Hardcover : pp. [viii] [4] 265 [280] : signed by Greg Gatenby (see below) : brown boards : gilt lettering to spine : illustrated jacket.
Head of spine gently pressed; scratch line to back of jacket. From the Greg Gatenby collection with his signature on front free endpaper. Gatenby was founding Artistic Director of the annual and world-renowned International Festival of Authors in Toronto, and of its adjunct, the weekly Harbourfront Reading Series.
Head of spine gently pressed; scratch line to back of jacket. From the Greg Gatenby collection with his signature on front free endpaper. Gatenby was founding Artistic Director of the annual and world-renowned International Festival of Authors in Toronto, and of its adjunct, the weekly Harbourfront Reading Series.
Synopsis
Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda , and again for True History of the Kelly Gang . His other honors include the Commonwealth Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. The author of seven previous novels and a collection of stories, he was born in Australia in 1943 and now lives in New York City. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Archives Fine Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14347
- Title
- My Life As a Fake
- Author
- CAREY, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.K. Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0571216188
- ISBN 13
- 9780571216185
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- FICTION AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE NOISBN
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