Random House, 2003, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, First
This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 270 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. But over the ensuing years his audacious act of literary ventriloquism takes on a much darker resonance. Having fled Melbourne for the seedy, sweaty streets of Kuala Lumpur, Chubb finds himself, just as Frankenstein was, haunted and pursued by his own creation. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Australia; ISBN: 0571216188. ISBN/EAN: 9780571216185. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3001.
This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 270 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. But over the ensuing years his audacious act of literary ventriloquism takes on a much darker resonance. Having fled Melbourne for the seedy, sweaty streets of Kuala Lumpur, Chubb finds himself, just as Frankenstein was, haunted and pursued by his own creation. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Australia; ISBN: 0571216188. ISBN/EAN: 9780571216185. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3001.