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The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Granta, 2014. First edition. Paperback. Fine. 8" by 5". None. A signed first paperback edition of Eleanor Catton's beautiful Man Booker Prize winning novel, 'The Luminaries'. The first edition thus of this work, being the first paperback edition, the first impression of the paperback edition. Signed by the author to the title page. Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize. 'The Luminaries' is a novel set in the mid nineteenth century in New Zealand's South Island, in the settlement of Hokitika where many have travelled to find their fortunes on the goldfields. Written by Eleanor Catton, a New Zealand author. She has also published another novel, 'The Rehearsal'. In the original publisher's paperback binding. Externally, smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Signed by the author to the title page. Fine
Synopsis
ELEANOR CATTON was born in 1985 in London, Ontario, and raised in New Zealand. Her internationially celebrated first novel, The Rehearsal , won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Betty Trask Award, and the NZ Society of Authors' Best First Book Award, was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Writers Prize, and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. She holds an MFA from the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was also an adjunct professor. She currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 670P37
- Title
- The Luminaries
- Author
- Eleanor Catton
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Granta
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2014
- Size
- 8" by 5"
- Keywords
- the luminaries eleanor catton man booker booker prize eleanor catton hokitika walter moody
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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