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Lot 184
Sale 1262 - Summer Reading: 20th Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection
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Jul 6, 2023
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Jul 26, 2023
Timed Online / Chicago
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$252
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Lot Description
ONDAATJE, Michael (b. 1943). A group of 5 works by Ondaatje, ALL SIGNED OR INSCRIBED BY ONDAATJE, comprising:
1) The English Patient. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Original cloth; publisher’s printed dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. SIGNED BY ODAATJE.
2) The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1974. Original cloth-backed boards; publisher’s printed dust jacket (bottom front flap of dust jacket clipped but not price clipped). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. SIGNED BY ODAATJE.
3) Rat Jelly & Other Poems 1963-78. London & Boston: Marion Boyars, 1980. Original cloth; publisher’s printed dust jacket. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. SIGNED BY ODAATJE.
4) Secular Love. New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1985. Original cloth; publisher’s printed dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. SIGNED BY ODAATJE.
5) Divisadero. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Original paper-backed boards; publisher’s printed dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED B ONDAATJE: “To Michael Keith Michael Ondaatje.”
Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, all 8vo, condition generally very good.