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de WAAL, EDMUND: : THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES: A HIDDEN INHERITANCE. [THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION.]

LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,2010.

ISBN 9780701187163.

UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj (as issued),1st illustrated edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to rear bd.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,black background with white glossy lettering and border design with superimposed colour photographic white rabbit vignette illustrated front board+spine, sharp-cornered boards; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Spine/backstrip,a black headband,pale blue silk bookmark ribbon sewn-in and immaculate different objects colour photographic illustrated front+rear endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-418pp [paginated] includes a preface,Pts 1-4 and Coda comprising 37 chapters in total,100 various coloured illustrations/photographs etc interspersed throughout the text and the book,an illustrations list,acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title with preamble,title page,a dedication,a prose extract (Marcel Proust,'Cities of the Plain'),contents list/ table,double-page family tree,colour photographic object d'art vignette illustrated preface separator page,and similar blank at rear. The definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller.Two hundred and sixty-four Japanese wood and ivory carvings,none of them larger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great-uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment.When he later inherited the netsuke, they unlocked a far more dramatic story than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris,from occupied Vienna to postwar Tokyo,de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century. With sumptuous photographs of the netsuke collection and full-color images from de Waal's family archive,the illustrated edition of 'The Hare with Amber Eyes' transforms a deeply intimate saga into a work of visual art. Edmund de Waal is one of the world's leading ceramic artists,and his porcelain is held in many major international collections.This bestselling memoir won the Costa Biography Award and the RSL Ondaatje Prize.It was also shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize,the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize,the PEN/Ackerley Prize and the Southbank Sky Arts Award for Literature. It was longlisted for the Orwell Prize and BBC Samuel Johnson Prize.Edmund was named New Writer of the Year at the 2010 Galaxy National Book Awards. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item for correct,insured 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. ** 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,no dw/dj (as issued),1st illustrated edn.
Not SIGNED.

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