Sacred Hunger
by Unsworth, Barry
Sacred Hunger is a historical novel by Barry Unsworth first published in 1992. It was joint winner of the Booker Prize that year, sharing the position with Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. The story is set in the mid 18th century and centers around the Liverpool Merchant, a slave ship employed in the triangular trade, a central trade route in the Atlantic slave trade.
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Sacred Hunger
by Barry Unsworth
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- 1992
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London: Hamilton Hamish, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. First UK Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine book in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Signed and inscribed to British literary agent Peter Straus on the title page. Includes the Joint Winner Booker Prize 1992 sticker laid in. Tanning to the pages else clean and fine.
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Sacred Hunger ( Signed By the Author With A Loose ‘Joint Winner Booker Prize 1992’ Sticker)
by Unsworth, Barry
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The First UK Printing published by Hamish Hamilton in 1992. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. A tight copy free from inscriptions and erasures. A little age toning to the text block but the pages remain clean. The WRAPPER is complete and is in near Fine condition. It bears the correct price of £14.99. No fading of colouring to… Read more
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992. A first edition, first printing by Hamish Hamilton in 1992. Complete with the rare Booker Prize winner sticker. Rare. A fine copy with a near fine + unclipped wrapper which shows slight chipping to the spine tips and one small closed tear on the front edge. Joint winner of the Booker… Read more
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New York: Doubleday, 1992. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 1992 Booker Prize, Signed on title page, small spot on top pages of book, some wear at bottom of pages.
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Sacred Hunger.
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992. First edition, first impression. Octavo. Original black boards, titles and pictorial decoration to spine in white, patterned endpapers. With dust jacket. Ownership inscription to front pastedown. Spine slightly rolled. An excellent copy in the dust jacket that is a little rubbed at the corners and has a small tear and crease to the… Read more
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United Kingdom: Oak Tree Fine Press, 2007. Book. Illus. by Ezequiel Mabote. New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Issued in a limited edition of 300 numbered copies signed by Barry Unsworth on the title page and a further 35 copies in the deluxe edition( Roman Numeral copies) which were signed and dated to the title page. This is the… Read more
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992. A first edition, first printing by Hamish Hamilton in 1992. A near fine copy without inscriptions. Some browning to the text block with a slight, black stain to the base. In a like, unclipped wrapper showing some slight chipping to the head of the spine and one small closed tear to the top of the… Read more
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992. Book Book Soft cover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). VG. Uncorrected proof copy signed by the author. White p/b cover with b/w design of rows of fettered slaves. 630pp. Fore-edge lightly foxed.
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Sacred Hunger
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 9.5" by 6". None. A great first edition copy of this novel by Barry Unsworth, Booker Prize co-winner in 1992. The first edition, first impression stated of this work by Barry Unsworth, co-winner of the Booker Prize in 1992 (together with The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje). The… Read more
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Sacred Hunger
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Doubleday & Co., 1992. First printing. Ivory cloth spine, mustard boards, gilt titles. By the author of Pascal's Island, Stone Virgin and other novels. A slave ship bound for North America from Africa encounters disease, mutiny and other problems. Book unread and very good plus with light edge spotting. DJ near fine. 629 pp.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.… Read more
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SACRED HUNGER
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New York: Nan A. Talese. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385265301 . Very Good+ in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. ; 9.2 X 6.6 X 2.0 inches .
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Sacred Hunger
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1992. Book in bound in tan cloth and gold boards, stamped in gold. The pages at the top edge have pulled away slightly from the cloth (typicall in thick books like this. Overall, a tight, clean copy of this, the author's fifth book, and winner of the Booker Prize in the year… Read more
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Sacred Hunger
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. White lettered black cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Co Winner with Ondaatje's English Patient of the Booker Prize. A very sharp copy.
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SACRED HUNGER.
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New York:: Doubleday,, (1992.). Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First US printing. Epic novel, co-winner of the Booker Award (with Ondaatje's English Patient.), a book which explores one of history's greatest tragedy - the inhumanity of the slave trade. Beginning in 1752 Liverpool, this is the story of a slaving ship, of mutineers and African… Read more
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Sacred Hunger
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Sacred Hunger (ARC)
by Unsworth, Barry
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992. Trace wear to cover edges and a bump to top rear fore corner that has produced short impact creases to about one-third of the leaves, else a nice tight copy with square spine. Referred by the publisher as "uncorrected advanced proofs". Co-winner, along with Ondaatje's "English Patient", of the 1992 Booker Prize.. First Edition.… Read more
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Sacred Hunger
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SACRED HUNGER.
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New York:: Doubleday,, 1992.. Near fine in illustrated cream wrappers - a tight, apparently unread copy. . Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) Epic novel, co-winner of the Booker Award (with Ondaatje's English Patient.), a book which explores one of history's greatest tragedy - the inhumanity of the slave trade. Beginning in 1752 Liverpool, this is the… Read more
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Sacred Hunger
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Sacred Hunger
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Hamish Hamilton, 1992. First UK edition-4th printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. VGC.Hamish Hamilton, 1992.First UK edition-4th printing (5 7 9 10 8 6 4).Black hardback (white lettering to the spine, two small nicks on the edges of the cover) with Dj(two small tears on the edges of the front Dj cover, small nicks and crease on the edges… Read more
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Sacred Hunger
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992. Used. It is 1752 and on a wave of optimism the Liverpool Merchant sets sail, her owner and captain greedily anticipating the easy money to be had from the buying and selling of African slaves.
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Sacred Hunger
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Sacred Hunger
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Sacred Hunger: A Novel
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Sacred Hunger
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London: Hamish Hamilton. Very Good+. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Trade PB . Slight shelf wear, some foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First UK paperback edition with full number line. Nice tight flat copy, no names inside, appears unread. Cover design uncredited. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 640 pages;… Read more
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Sacred Hunger
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NY: Doubleday, 1992. First US Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First (US) printing of the 1992 Booker Prize winner, a novel of the slave trade. Fine in a fine dustjacket, perfect. (box 164)
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Sacred Hunger
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Hamish Hamilton, 1992. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. hardback, third printing, thick octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved pictorial dust wrapper, free of inscriptions, markings, etc, 629pp.
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New York: Nan A. Talese. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 0385265301 . Gently read. .
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Sacred Hunger
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SACRED HUNGER
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Doubleday, 1992. 630pp. Hardback with DJ, VG, Fourth Printing, "En route to America with a cargo of African slaves, the crew of the Liverpool Merchant, enraged at the captain's impotence in the face of disease, carry out a mutiny that pits two cousins against each other", . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Sacred Hunger (Uncorrected Proof)
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New York: Doubleday, 1992. Uncorrected Proof of the US Edition. Co-winner of the Booker Prize. Fine in printed wrappers.
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New York:: Norton,, (1993). Near fine. 1st trade paperback printing. Epic novel, co-winner of the Booker Award (with Ondaatje's English Patient.), a book which explores one of history's greatest tragedy - the inhumanity of the slave trade. Beginning in 1752 Liverpool, this is the story of a slaving ship, of mutineers and African captives who establish a… Read more
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