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THOMAS**, D. M: : ARARAT

LONDON.GOLLANCZ,1983.

ISBN 0575032472.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.No owner inscrptn, unclipped dw/dj - assumed export 1st edn - no publisher's price to inner flap,this usually indicates true first as these edns precede the trade 1sts.FINE/FINE.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated art-work by Martin Ware,upper wrap and spine/backstrip and full wrap,author portrait b/w photograph to rear wrap with minimal shelf-wear; and negligible creasing to dw/dj edges - no nicks or tears present and no bumped corners.Top edge lightly aged - as usual/normal - and minisculely spotted but clean,fore-edge less aged and cleaner; contents bright,tight and near pristine with no dog-ear reading creases to pages' corners.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creases.Bright,clean, plain black paper-covered boardds with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers with no off-set foxing from the dw/dj's inner flaps.A really superb copy.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,14- 191pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,author's note,a prologue,5 chapters and an epilogue. D. M. Thomas's brilliant new book (then 1983) offers the reader a succession of pleasures,not least that of laughter,for the portrait of the poet or poets at it's centre is,in part,a brutally funny assault on the personal vanities and compromises of the creative ego.But beyond all the laughter,ironies and masks is the image of the serene twin-peaked mountain,Ararat, subject or theme of all the poet's flights of invention - fought over,longed for,dreamed of, but also solidly there,untouched by all the floods;and it is in that image,seen at the end of the book by a man and a woman gazing out of a hotel window in Armenia,which finally puts a stop to all the proliferating improvisations.As different from it's immensely successful predecessor,'THE WHITE HOTEL' - see my book ID ra852419 for UK,SIGNED rpt edn,as it is from from D.M.Thomas's two earlier novels,'THE FLUTE PLAYER' - my book ID rja1367,a UK 1st edn and BIRTHSTONE (themselves very unalike),'ARARAT' is unique,and will win new admirers for this extraordinary British writer.Author's 3rd novel. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

THOMAS, D.M : Ararat

Gollancz, 1983

Fine/Fine. First Edition.

Thomas, D. M : Ararat

London: Victor Gollancz, 1983.

8vo., 191 pp., Very Good, Black Cloth, Dust Jacket, shelf wear.

Thomas, D. M : Ararat

New York: Viking Press, 1983.

8vo., 191 pp., Very Good, Black Cloth on Blue Boards, Dust Jacket, shelf wear.

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