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CARTER**, ANGELA: : NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS

LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS/THE HOGARTH PRESS,1984.

ISBN 0701139323.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy colour pictorial artwork by Barbara Kaiser,illustrated dw/dj with black outlined/shadowed,capitalised,pink lettered author name and capitalised,yellow backed with black outlined within,lettered title to the front panel of dw/dj,colour illustrated artwork to spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+ lettered author+title as front and publisher's white illustrated colophon,to foot of same,all affected with light sunning/fading,rear panel with continuation of colour pictorial artwork with no text. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present - both head+foot of spine/ backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges whilst very lightly toned,still clean and without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,soild and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread,other than my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/ backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-294pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-3 (LONDON,PETERSBURG and SIBERIA with5,11 and 10 chapters respectively,and an ENVOI; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and individual Pts separator pages. Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable,and even internally,the book is also in an acceptable and pleasing condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its age.It is only the minimal exterior faults that prevents a slightly higher grading overall. Despite that,it really is still a more than acceptable copy for its cleanliness and brightness. Fevvers: the toast of Europe's capitals,courted by princes,painted by Toulouse Lautrec,the greatest aerialiste of her time. Fevvers: somersaulting lazily through the air, hovering in the moment between the nineteenth century and the twentieth,between old dreams and new beginnings,borne up by the spread of wings that can't be real! Or - can they? Fevvers: the Cockney Venus,six foot two in her stockings,the coarsely lively and lovely heroine of Angela Carter's extraordinary new novel. Obsessed with Fevvers,constantly bamboozled by the anarchist sorcery of her dresser and confidante,Lizzie,the dashing young journalist Jack Walser stumbles into a journey which takes him from London to Siberia via legendary St Petersburg and out of his male certainties,into a transforming world of danger and joy,the world of Colonel Kearney's circus,in which life is 'the ludic game'. Featuring a cast of thousands,including: the clown's requiem,the tiger's waltz,theeducated apes,the bashful brigands,the structuralist wizard. Not forgetting Sybil,the Mystic Pig. The penultimate novel by Angela Carter; published in 1984,it marked a change of direction in her work.As well as being substantially longer than anything she had previously produced,it developed Carter’s earlier interest in fairy tales into a form of magical realism. This mode of writing – which was also practised at this time by writers such as Gabriel García Márquez and Carter’s friend Salman Rushdie – uses imaginative,fantastical scenarios as a means of discussing stark social and political issues. Won the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, to a mixed reception,Carter wrote only one more novel,'Wise Children'(1991). But over the longer term,'Nights at the Circus' fared better. In 2006, the novel was adapted for the stage,and in 2012 it was named the best ever winner of the James Tait Black; a prize that dates back to 1919. The writer Sarah Waters called it Carter’s ‘masterpiece … the most engaging and accessible of her fictions’. Please contact seller, for correct 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. ** This item offered P+p included.Available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** 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 AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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

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