Bliss Tapa dura - 1981

London: Faber, 1981. First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 296pp. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. Light foxing to the endpapers and the edges of the text block; overall, the book is in good to very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (a little rubbed). ISBN 0571117694

London: Faber & Faber., 1981. Authors first Novel it won the Mile Franklin Award for 1981. A man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell. For the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is, and takes up a notebook to explore and note down the true nature of the Underworld. CONDITION Black bds with crisp Silver title (bottom cnrs slightly bumped o/w unworn) 296 pages. Very bright and crispy. DJ not worn. Only fault is due to DJ being foil covered it has caused transference to eps of DJ coating. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Faber and Faber, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good +. 296 p. 32 cm. Black hardcover in mylar-covered dustjacket. Crease in jacket's front flap. Light shelf wear.

London: Faber & Faber, 1981. First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket is slightly scuffed, and discoloured on the interior. Page block is lightly tanned. Otherwise, almost as new. LW. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used.

London: Faber & Faber, 1981 G/VG-. 8vo. original black boards (ex-library with occ. rsms, some creasing and marking to early leaves only, blank labels to pastedowns, slightly rubbed & thumbed, hinges cracked with tape strengthening, some leaf edge spotting) in foil dustwrapper £6.50 (rubbed and creased, as usual); pp. 296. A good reading copy.. First UK. Hard Cover. G/VG-.

Faber & Faber, 1981. 1st Edition. . Book Book Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Faber & Faber, 1981. 1st Edition . Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first impression. Book in VG condition in a VG unclipped dust-jacket, with some wear and rubbing. Little bit of spotted marking to edge of text-block. Internally clean, 296pp.

Faber and Faber, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 296 pages. The author's first novel, the story of an ad man who is changed by a near-death experience. First British edition (first printing).Faint vertical creases to front free endpaper and first few pages, else a fine copy in a very nearly fine dust jacket.

London: Faber & Faber. A VG+ UK first edition, first printing hardback - in a VG+ dustjacket - not price-clipped - fitted with a removable, clear mylar sleeve - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1981.

London: Faber & Faber, Incorporated, 1981. Tight, clean copy of the first edition of the author's first novel (second book). Bound in the printed aluminum foil dust jacket. Jacket shows a few minor scratches and a vertical crease to the back flap, but edges are crisp with no tears, chips. Signed by Mr. Carey on a bookplate affixed to the half-title page. 296 pp.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

E-183: Faber & Faber. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia. 1981. 296 pgs. Signed by Peter Carey on the title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bookstore stamp present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in this darkly funny novel, death is sometimes a necessary prelude to real life. Part The Wizard of Oz, part Dante's Inferno, and part Australian Book of the Dead, Bliss is a triumph of uninhibited storytelling from a writer of… Leer más