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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author First US edition, first prnt. Signed by Banville on the title page. Faint beginning board edge toning, slight spinecocking; dustjacket with two tiny closed tears on the rear panel topedge, edgewear at the spine ends and bottom corner of front flap clipped (price is printed on the upper corner). Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Banville's second book.
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Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Secker & Warburg, London, UK. 1971. 224 pgs. Signed and inscribed by John Banville on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. ‘They took everything from me. Everything. ' So says the central character of Nightspawn, John Banville's elusive, first novel, in which the author rehearses now familiar attributes: his humour, ironies, and brilliant knowing. In the arid setting of the Aegean, Ben White indulges in an obsessive quest to assemble his ‘story' and to untangle his relationships with a cast of improbable figures. Banville's subversive, Beckettian fiction embraces themes of freedom and betrayal, and toys with an implausible plot, the stuff of an ordinary ‘thriller' shadowed by political intrigue. In this elaborate artifact, Banville's characters ‘sometimes lose the meaning of things, and everything is just...Funny'. There begins their search for ‘the magic to combat any force'.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 0 pages; Signed by Author.
