New York: Viking Penguin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Date: 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670031305 . A handsome first (stated) American edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket, SIGNED by author and Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee on the title page; This ingenious novel is structured around a collection of essays, all but two previously published, embedded within the story of aging Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello. Costello (who first appeared in Coetzee's 1999 volume "The Lives of Animals") gives her longest and most passionate speech in defense of animal rights, one of eight "lessons" the reader receives on what it means to be human; 8vo; Signed by Author . 2003. Viking Penguin ISBN 0670031305 US

New York: Viking Penguin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Date: 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670031305 . A handsome first (stated) American edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket, SIGNED by author and Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee on the title page; This ingenious novel is structured around a collection of essays, all but two previously published, embedded within the story of aging Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello. Costello (who first appeared in Coetzee's 1999 volume "The Lives of Animals") gives her longest and most passionate speech in defense of animal rights, one of eight "lessons" the reader receives on what it means to be human; 8vo; Signed by Author . 2003. Viking Penguin ISBN 0670031305 9780670031306 [US]

NY Viking 2003 verso FIRST EDITION AMERICAN, 2P; 3579108642pt line Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket 8.3 X 5.4 X 1.1 inches VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S21.95) DUST JACKET...very nice, clean, solid copy BRIGHT; WHITE spine titles on BLUE SPINE. with...BLACK hard covers...dust jacket shows titles on black & blue photo of person? outside window paane........NOBEL PRIZE WINING AUTHOR and the CNA PRIZE, SOUTH AFRICA'S premier literary award plus the..2X3" Photo of author inner back dj flap..; 230 pages; BOOKER AWARD WINNING AUTHOR...

NY: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Date: 2003 verso. FIRST EDITION AMERICAN ,2P; 3579108642pt line. Hardcover. 8.3 X 5.4 X 1.1 inches. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S21.95) DUST JACKET...very nice, clean, solid copy BRIGHT ; WHITE spine titles on BLUE SPINE.with...BLACK hard covers...dust jacket shows titles on black & blue photo of person ? outside window paane..... . ..NOBEL PRIZE WINING AUTHOR and the CNA PRIZE, SOUTH AFRICA'S premier literary award plus the..2X3" Photo of author inner back dj flap.. ; 230 pages; BOOKER AWARD WINNING AUTHOR... . 2003. Viking ISBN 0670031305 9780670031306 [US]

New York: Viking, Date: 2003. Remainder mark; 233pp. A novel from the Nobel-Prize winning author. Signed by the author on a bookplate attached to the half-title page. . Signed by Author. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 2003. Viking ISBN 0670031305 9780670031306 [US]

New York: Viking Press, Date: 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. First Printing of Coetzee's ninth novel, published in the year he won the Nobel Prize for literature, signed on the title page. 8vo:[6],230,[4]pp. Publisher's French blue faux cloth spine lettered in white, black paper-covered boards with author's monogram in blind to upper board, pictorial dust jacket priced $21.95. As New (and probably unread), in Fine jacket without flaw. Of the eight "lessons" and postscript that make up the novel, seven had previously appeared 1997 to 2002. Only "Lesson 7: Eros" and "Lesson 8: At the Gate" are published here for the first time. "A number of these had also emerged earlier as lectures given by Coetzee . . . [so] it is likely that he had no overall plan in mind for Elizabeth Costello and, indeed, had to rework a number of the individual texts to make them compatible for simultaneous publication. It is also important to note that Elizabeth Costello's appearances in Coetzee's work extend outside her eponymous role in the book: to date she has also appeared in the 2004 short story "As a Woman Grows Older" and as the interloping author of Slow Man in 2005. As such, the final version of the text can be profitably considered as a collage of interrelated lectures and short stories rather than a unified novel." (Literary Encyclopedia) While, on its surface, this collage portrays a woman's life as mother, sister, lover, and writer, the novel is also a meditation on the ...