APEIROGON, A Novel.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE-/FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around silver foil background with pictorial artwork of birds' white silhouettes in flight with a pair of birds' black silhouettes to front panel of dw/dj,with capitalised,black-lettered author name +title,capitalised,black-lettered 'NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR' credit along with publisher's name too,on front panel; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured +lettered author name as front,but white-lettered part title and publisher's black illustrated colophon to foot of same, rear panel with similar illustration as front's but with colours reversed - birds' black silhouettes and a pair of birds' white silhouettes and 5 critic's black-lettered reviews. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - majority of light creasing to top edges but no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright, crisp,clean with very minimal blemish; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, unblemished sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettering,a silver /grey+white striped headband and immaculate black endpapers with single bird's white silhouette illustration to lower,fore-edge corner of front pastedown and top,fore-edge corner of front free endpaper,similar white silhouettes but to rear free endpaper's lower,fore-edge corner and rear pastedown's top,fore-edge corner.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,.4-463pp [paginated] includes thumbnail b/w photographs randomly interspersed throughout the text,Acknowledgements at rear; plus [unpaginated] blank with publisher's list of author's other titles to its reverse,half-title+title pages,a dedication, Author's Note,a separator page] and to the rear,Illustration credits,an About the Author page,and an About the Type page too. Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable, and particularly internally,the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minimal exterior faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite them,it really is still an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness, brightness and lack of major detracting faults. Rami Elhanan and bassam Aramin live near one another - yet they exist worlds apart.Rami is Israeli.Bassam is Palestinian.Rami's license plate is yellow.Bassam's license plate is green.It takes Rami fifteen minutes to drive to the West Bank.The same journey for Bassam takes an hour and a half. Both men have lost their daughters.Rami's thirteen-year-old girl Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends.Bassam's ten-year-old daughter Abir was shot and killed by a member of the border police outside her school.There was a candy bracelet in her pocket she hadn't yet had time to eat. The men become the best of friends. In this epic novel - named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides - Colum McCann crosses centuries and continents,stitching time,art,history,nature and politics into a tapestry of friendship,love,loss and belonging. Musical,muscular,delicate and soaring,this is a book for our times from a writer at the height of his powers. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **