Michael Ondaatje THE ENGLISH PATIENT First Edition First Print Hardback 1992

First UK edition, first print hardback of THE ENGLISH PATIENT by Michael Ondaatje and published by Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., London, 1992. With the full numberline 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the copyright page. Cover illustration by Julian Lee. Winner of The Booker Prize in 1992.

The book is in very good condition (blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine) with minor creasing to the spine edges, a touch of age spotting to the page edges, and a little discolouring to the bottom edge of the front board. The book is in a good unclipped cream pictorial paper dust jacket, which has light creasing and rubbing to the edges, a small closed tear to the top front corner and some sticker removal wear to the front cover. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.

A breathtaking, beautifully written story of love and passion that twists through London's Blitz and the intricacies of bomb disposal, through the mysterious, often dangerous world of desert exploration. As full of resonances as a dream, The English Patient stands as one of Ondaatje's finest works. 

307 pages.

ISBN: 074751254X

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