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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95. Seller Inventory # G1741666554I3N00
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Bump and small tear to upper edge of front d/j near spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Seller Inventory # 200263
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001457619
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration. Seller Inventory # GOR013298456
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Flanagan's fifth novel, and one his most successful, winning several prizes and appearing on "Book of the Year" lists. The novel takes historical facts and real people as its inspiration. Sir John Franklin, the British naval officer and Arctic explorer who was governor of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), and who, with his wife, Lady Jane, adopted an Aboriginal girl, is a central character, as is Charles Dickens. Good stuff. This is the true first edition, published by Knopf in Sydney, and as only the most revered authors in Australia seem to get a hardcover rather than a paperback original, it shows just how high is the esteem with which Richard Flanagan is held. Apart from minimal softening of spine ends, a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with minor edgewear. Seller Inventory # 002134
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Knopf Australia, North Sydney, 2008, Hardcover First Edition/First Australian Printing with a complete number line ending in '1'. Book condition: a Near Fine minus copy with a ding on the bottom front and rear boards; with issue listed as Very Good - tight, clean copy. Dust Jacket: Very Good plus plus to Near Fine minus - light wear at the top two corners, not price clipped and comes in a removable, archival, mylar sleeve. Seller Inventory # 001599
Book Description Condition: Good. Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 1.06. Seller Inventory # 353-1741666554-gdd
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing, with full number line. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy in an unclipped jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-2399
Book Description Hardback. 1108. It is 1839. A young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through the long wet grass of an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying father, an Aboriginal chieftain. Twenty years later, on an island at the centre of the world, the most famous novelist of the day, Charles Dickens, realises he is about to abandon his wife, risk his name, and forever after be altered because of his inability any longer to control his intense passion. Connecting the two events are the most celebrated explorer of the age, Sir John Franklin - then governor of Van Diemen's Land - and his wife, Lady Jane, who adopt Mathinna, seen as one of the last of a dying race, as an experiment. Lady Jane believes the distance between savagery and civilisation is the learned capacity to control wanting. The experiment fails, Sir John disappears into the blue ice of the Arctic seeking the North-West Passage, and a decade later Lady Jane enlists Dickens' aid to put an end to the scandalous suggestions that Sir John's expedition ended in cannibalism. Dickens becomes ever more entranced in the story of men entombed in ice, recognising in its terrible image his own frozen inner life. He produces and stars in a play inspired by Franklin's fate to give story to his central belief: that discipline and will can conquer desire. And yet the play will bring him to the point where he is finally no longer able to control his own passion and the consequences it brings. Based on historic events, Wanting is a novel about art, love, and the way in which life is finally determined never by reason, but only ever by wanting. Knopf, 2008. First edition, first printing. A fine copy only marked by a bookseller sticker to the front pastedown. The d/w is also fine. A really lovely copy. Seller Inventory # 4330159
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Uncorrected Proof first edition, first impression 2008 Soft Cover near fine book, page edges lightly browned. Contents fine, bright and clean. No inscription. 256 pages. Seller Inventory # 0018520