Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Title: Heat & Dust; How I Became a Holy Mother
Description: London, John Murray, 1975-1976. First edition. Cloth. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Booker Prize winning novel, with her fourth short story collection; both excellent first editions with the original dust wrappers. The first edition, first impressions of these two works in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers.Previous owner's ink inscription to the front free end paper of How I Became a Holy Mother.Two works by the novelist and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927- 2013), including the Booker Prize winning novel Heat & Dust (1975) and the collection of short stories, How I Became a Holy Mother (1976). The former follows a young woman travelling to India to find out more about her step-grandmother, Olivia. The latter contains nine short stories, set in India and focusing on the complexities of human passion. In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, excellent, with just a touch of fading to the extremities of 'How I Became a Holy Mother&apos. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean except for very light offsetting to the end papers and the odd spot to the top edge of the textblock. Dust wrappers are in lovely condition. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Booker Prize Novels Short stories Booker Prize Not Stated


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