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Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Signed first edition of Louis de Bernières's Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Louis de Bernières
First edition. Second issue binding. 8vo. Pp. [x], 437, [1, blank]. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine (variant binding); blue 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. Tanning to text margins, as usual, faint bumping to tail of spine, dustjacket edge-worn with laminate lifting in places, else Very Good.
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
height × width
​24 × ​16.5 cm
genre
literary fiction
language
English
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
very good
of jacket
very good
GBP£ ​360
EUR€ ​434
USD$ ​468
ref.459 743