Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald . First Edition stated, 2001 Random House. First Printing with full number line.
Fine hardcover with bright boards, straight spine, clean page blocks, and strong corners. No marks or inscriptions. Pages clean and bright. Not the special 2018 edition – this is the true first/first (2001) – with the same cover design.
Near Fine dust jacket with mild edge wear and a few spots on the back. First state jacket with $25.95 price on the front flap. Looks great in a new archival wrap.
Over the course of a thirty-year conversation unfolding in train stations and travelers’ stops across England and Europe, W.G. Sebald’s unnamed narrator and Jacques Austerlitz discuss Austerlitz’s ongoing efforts to understand who he is. An orphan who came to England alone in the summer of 1939 and was raised by a Welsh Methodist minister and his wife as their own, Austerlitz grew up with no conscious memory of where he came from.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
