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Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Signed first edition and issue of de Bernières's Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Louis de Bernières
First edition. First issue binding. 8vo. Pp. [x], 437, [1, blank]. Publisher's cream cloth, lettered in maroon to spine (preferred binding); maroon endpapers. Pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Graham Bence (priced £14.99 to front flap).
Signed by de Bernières on the title-page and dated the year of publication. Slight tanning to text margins, as usual, else Fine.
Winner of the 1995 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book. Listed at no. 19 on the BBC's The Big Read in 2003. Named one of Granta's "Best of Young British Novelists" in 1993. Author's celebrated fourth book of an ill-fated love triangle set on the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Axis Occupation. Basis for the 2001 film adaptation directed by John Madden, starring Nicholas Cage, Penelope Cruz, and John Hurt. "An extraordinary novel." Daily Mirror
special feature
signed
edition
first edition
format
hardback
publisher
Secker & Warburg
published in
London
publication year
1994
ISBN
0436201585
pagination
437 pages
width × height
​16.5 × ​24 cm
genre
literary fiction
language
English
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
near fine
of jacket
fine
GBP£ ​750
EUR€ ​897
USD$ ​990
ref.Y56 U74