ISBN10: 1857022106, ISBN13: 9781857022100, [publisher: Fourth Estate, London] Hardcover First Edition First printing of the first UK edition, with no mention of any further printings on the printer's page. The book was first published in the USA in 1993 by Scribner's, NY. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright. Boards clean with just some small marks to the lower corner of the back board. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. The top edge of the page block is lightly foxed. Internally also near fine, but a previous owner's inscription to the front free endpaper has been covered over with a plain white sticker [please see scans]. Interior pages clean and bright. No creases, marks or tears. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour illustrated price-clipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper complete with no chips or tears. Edges of dustwrapper just slightly creased and rubbed, mainly at the head and tail of the spine. Some light fading to the spine of the dustwrapper. ***337 pages. 242 mm x 160 mm. ***'A stunning book, full of magic and portent.' - Boston Sunday Globe [Review quote taken from the back panel of the dustwrapper]. ***'"The Shipping News" is a novel by American author E. Annie Proulx and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the U.S. National Book Award, as well as ...
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