AUSTERLITZ (First edition - a scarce Uncorrected Proof Copy)

W. G. Sebald (Translated from the German by Anthea Bell)

ISBN 10: 0241141257 / ISBN 13: 9780241141250

Edité par Hamish Hamilton, London, 2001

A propos de cet article

An Uncorrected Proof Copy of the first edition in English, with the no. "1" on the publisher's copyright prelims page. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. Black and white photo- illustrations throughout. The book is in a smaller format than the first trade edition, and printed on 357 pages rather than the 416 pages of the first trade edition. ***Very good in matt boards with gilt and black titles to the spine. Photograph illustration to the front board, which replicates the dustwrapper illustration on the first trade edition. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Corners sharp. Boards slightly marked, in particular the back board which has a matt cream finish. Spine tight. No dustwrapper, as issued. A couple of top corner tips of the pages slightly creased, and a light mark to the top of the fore-edge of the text block, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. ***205mm x 135mm. 357 pages. ***In the summer of 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the so-called Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasons of their own, the childless calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity. Austerlitz, who eventually becomes an architectural historian, goes through life assiduously avoiding all clues that might point to his origins and to the fate of his true parents. It is only in his retirement that the past returns to haunt him and makes him explore what happened to him half a century ago'. (Quote taken from the back flap of the dustwrapper). ***A scarce Uncorrected Proof Copy of the first edition in English, in nice condition. Presented in a removable protective plastic sleeve. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

N° de réf. du vendeur 7165

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: AUSTERLITZ (First edition - a scarce Uncorrected Proof Copy)
• Éditeur: Hamish Hamilton, London
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0241141257
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780241141250
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition in English
• Impression: First Impression
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket, as Issued
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature
  • First Editions

A propos de ce titre

Synopsis

'One of the most exciting, and most mysteriously sublime, of contemporary European writers' Guardian In this major work, the finest of his career to date, W.G. Sebald traces the moving and epic story of Jacques Austerlitz. Sent to Wales on the last Kindertransport from Europe on the eve of the Second World War, five-year-old Austerlitz is adopted by Welsh Calvinists, who decide to remove any trace of his true origins. Throughout his life Austerlitz is haunted by feelings of otherness, but it is not until retirement that he embarks on a journey to make sense of his curious early memories, taking the reader back into the heart of pre-war Europe...

À propos de l?auteur

W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted, Campo Santo and Silent Catastrophes among other publications.