A Widow for One Year - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1998.
ISBN: 0747536783
A Widow for One Year - 1st Edition/1st Printing
An impeccable true first edition/first printing UK trade edition preceding the US trade edition, SIGNED by author John Irving on the title page. In fine condition housed in a Near Fine dust-jacket that has a crease on the bottom corner and a light fold to the inside flap. There are also a few pinches at the tops and bottoms of the dust-jacket.
John Irving's deeply affecting novel about a family marked with tragedy, centering around the complex, often self-contradictory character of celebrated writer Ruth Cole. The portrait begins with Ruth being four years old and closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother.
Basis for the major motion picture "The Door in the Floor" starring Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger; 8vo; Signed by Author.
Price: $120.00
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