NIGHTSPAWN.
by BANVILLE, John (William John), 1945- :
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Secker & Warburg, (1971). First edition. Signed by multiple award-winning John Banville on the title-page - loosely inserted is a 2008 ticket for "An Evening with John Banville", the occasion on when the book was signed. Night Spawn, Night's Pawn, Knight's Pawn - his sometimes disavowed first novel, a fantasy political thriller of sorts set on a Greek island and then in Athens - "crotchety, posturing, absurdly pretentious", in his own words, but for at least one online commentator, "I am left stunned. I think I have been bludgeoned by beauty". Post 8vo (21cm). (224)pp. Original maroon boards, lettered in gilt; just a hint of bruising, but a very good, clean and bright copy in the Mike Dempsey dust-jacket, equally very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44931
- Title
- NIGHTSPAWN.
- Author
- BANVILLE, John (William John), 1945- :
- Illustrator
- Mike Dempsey
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Secker & Warburg, (1971).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Irish Literature, Fiction, Signed
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ash Rare Books
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London
About Ash Rare Books
Ash Rare Books. Founded in 1946 and long one of London's more interesting small book businesses. Owned and run by Laurence Worms, former President of the ABA.
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- First Edition
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