The Debt To Pleasure

NY: Henry Holt & Co. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. First Printing. Hardcover. 0805043888 . Number penned on front free endpaper, in VG DJ (in protector) , sticker shadow on rear DJ panel ; Signed by author. Illustrated hardback binding. Novel set in the milieu of french cooking ; 12mo; xvi + 251 pages; Signed… Read more about this item

Henry Holt & Co, 1996-04-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x5x1. Signed by Author. Signed by author on title page. This book is a first edition. Hardback book of very good condition. Dustjacket ISBN partially obscured by sticker residue. Bumping to head and tail of spine of dustjacket. Head and tail of spine of book bumped. Leading… Read more about this item

London:: Picador,, (1996). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.). First printing. The author's first book, a combination of novel, cookbook, and epicurian philosophy. A book narrated by "Tarquin Winot as he embarks on a journey of the senses, regaling us with his wickedly funny, poisonously opinionated meditations on everything from the erotics… Read more about this item

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1996 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition. Draws the reader, through descriptions of food and cooking, into a world of murder and art. Narrated by Tarquin, an ironist, epicurean and a snob, this novel is constructed around a series of seasonal menus, which unfold his autobiography..

New York, New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1996. 1st Edition, 1st printing with full number line. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. INSCRIBED by author "To *** with best wishes from John Lanchester 12. v 96". Excellent copy, not rated FINE because I found one page dog-eared; small area of spotting upper rear wrap -think this may be due… Read more about this item

NY: Henry Holt, 1996. An "as new" copy in pictorial boards and "cut out" dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the publisher's bookplate affixed to the half-title page. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

LONDON: PICADOR, 1996 Black Boards with silver blocked titles to spine, 220 x 155 mm approx. 232 pp. First Edition 1st impression 1996. The author's maiden novel which has a culinary influence no doubt from his experience as restaurant critic for the observer . As New/ As New (Book- no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket non price… Read more about this item

(London): Picador, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Slightly cocked with dampstaining on the boards else very good in a very good minus dustwrapper with waviness and internal dampstaining. Signed by the author. Author's first book.

(London): Picador, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Author's first book.

London : Picador, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 231 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects: Dinners and dining France ; Fiction. British Travel France ; Fiction. Food habits France ; Fiction. Cooking, French ; Fiction. Genre: Fiction. Language:… Read more about this item

London: Picador, 1996. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8.5" by 6". None. A very smart first edition of this wickedly funny debut novel from Lanchester, inscribed for literary agent Rod Hall. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page with the inscription: "To Rod, with thanks and best wishes, Love John… Read more about this item

Paperback. Acceptable.

(London): Picador, 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Author's first book.

Picador. Reading copy. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1997.

Henry Holt & Co, 1996-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x1x7. Signed by Author. Bookplate signed by author on half title page. Minor shelf wear to binding on corners, edges & spine. Light soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1996. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. Self-obsessed and convoluted gastronomical musings slowly reveal a more sinister agenda. The first novel from the deputy editor of the London Review of Books.

McClelland & Stewart. Fine+. 1996. Hardcover. 0771045859 . First Edition. A Fine pictorial Hardcover, tightly bound, bright & unmarked interior. The DJ is unclipped and in Very Good+ condition, small scrape to the front cover bottom edge. "To like something is to want to ingest it and, in that sense, is to submit to the world; to… Read more about this item

London: Picador, 1996. First UK edition. Hardcover. As New/as new.

London: Picador, 1996. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Original black cloth, with pictorial dust jacket; plain endpapers; [viii], 232pp. Pushed at head and tail, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced £15.99), light rubbed at edges, else Near Fine. Lanchester's first novel, winner of the 1996 Whitbread Book Award (First Novel) and the 1997 Hawthornden Prize.

Picador. Very Good. 148 x 210mm. Paperback. 1996. 232 pages. .<br>The narrating character Tarquin Winot reminisces about a British childhood spent primarily in France and about foo d. Voluptuous and quirky, he gradually reveals more about his nat ure than perhaps he'd like. No recipes but evocative and beautifu lly written descriptions of various dishes and how they were… Read more about this item