Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin
London, Bloomsbury, 2000 . First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of the first UK edition of Margaret Atwood's Booker Prize winning work of historical fiction. The first UK edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Flat signed by Atwood to the title page.The book is set in the fictional Ontario town of Port Ticonderoga, and in Toronto. It is narrated from the present day, referring to previous events that span the twentieth century, but is set mostly the 1930s and 1940s.It was awarded the Booker Prize in 2000. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. A touch of shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise externally fine. Light sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with marks to back strip head at folds over joints, and to head of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Flat signed to title page. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.
Rooke Books
Professional sellerBook number: 873F54
GBP 265.00 [Appr.: EURO 309.5 US$ 328.76 | JP¥ 50710]
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