CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN Louis de Bernières SIGNED 1st/1st 1994 VGC DJ

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Dustjacket in good condition overall, some scuffs here and there, and a small chip to bottom along with board, edges frayed, but colours vivid and bright. Pages generally clean condition, some sun-tanning.

Neat inscription by previous owner to ffep. Signed by author to title page along with date. Louis de Bernières (born 8 December 1954) is an English novelist. He is known for his 1994 historical war novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year.

On 16 July 2008, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in the Arts by the De Montfort University in Leicester, which he had attended when it was Leicester Polytechnic. As new means that the book is in the state that it should have been in when it left the publisher. Fine (F or FN) is "as new" but allowing for the normal effects of time on an unused book that has been protected. A fine book shows no damage.

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Binding: Hardback
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg
Year Printed: 1994
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated, Signed
Fiction Subject: General & Literary Fiction
Region: Europe
Author: Louis de Bernières
Original/Reproduction: Original
Topic: Literary fiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom