LOGUE, ANTONIA - Shadow-Box
Toronto, McClelland & Stewart. 1999, 1st Canadian edition. (ISBN: 0-7710-5351-7) Hard Cover, Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall. author's first novel; in a series of fictional letters between Jack Johnson, boxing's first black heavyweight champion, English poet Mina Loy, and semi-professional boxer/art critic (and a whole lotta other things in real life, including pimp and lumberjack) Arthur Cravan, Logue tells a tale which weaves together the worlds of boxing, art, and high society; in addition to winning the Irish Times Literature Prize for Irish Fiction, this one made the shortlist for both the John Llewellyn-Rhys Award for Fiction and the Hawthornden Prize; this copy warmly inscribed by Logue to a couple apparently celebrating a wedding anniversary ("Winnipeg,/October 14th 1999./For ----- and ----,/Congratulations on such a/wonderful celebration--/38 years! It is inspirational--/With warmest wishes for/the future,/Antonia Logue") (that's a lovely inscription.how could anyone part with the book which contains it?); black cloth, 308 pgs.; mild general wear; rubbed dj w/a few impressions/scratches;. Near Fine/Very Good to Fine. Inscribed & Signed by Author.
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