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ATWOOD**, M[argaret] E[leanor]: : CAT'S EYE

LONDON.BLOOMSBURY,1989.

ISBN 0747503044.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial artwork by Jamie Bennet,illustrated front dw/dj panel with white and other black letters,white lettered dark blue spine/backstrip,rear panel with critics' white-lettered reviews; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Some minimal, superficial scoring/indents to either dw/dj panel - but without penetration or affecting the boards beneath.Top edges with some minimal,faint dust flecking but still bright,fore-edges bright and clean without any blemish; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corners – virtually pristine,would appear unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher’s bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt 5-star constellation and author's capitalised initialled design to lower fore-edge of front board, bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,rear board plain and unillustrated,a sewn-in blue silk ribbon bookmark and immaculate/clean navy blue sets of endpapers - publisher's colophon to front free endpaper,but same colophon absent from rear endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 3421pp [paginated] includes Pts I-XV (1-15) comprising varying numbers of chapters to each Pt,but 74 chapters in total; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication with author's Acknowledgements and Thanks to its verso,epigrams(2),a Contents list/table, individual Pts separator pages,and to reverse of last page - a note on the author. Visually the exterior appearance is acceptable for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the exterior faults described that prevent a higher grading. Controversial painter Elaine Risley returns from Vancouver for a retrospective of her work. Here,in Toronto,the city of her youth,she confronts the submerged layers of her past – her unconventional family,her eccentric and brilliant brother,the self-righteous Mrs. Smeath,and the two men Elaine later came to love in diverse and sometimes disastrous ways.But it is the enigmatic Cordelia,once her tormentor, then her best friend,whose elusive yet powerful presence in her life Elaine finally comes to understand.The realm of childhood and growing up,with its secrecies,cruelties, betrayals,and terrors,has never been so brilliantly evoked.By turns disquieting,humorous,compassionate, haunting and mordant.'Cat's Eye.' is vintage Atwood. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - 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 US 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.

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