Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Campo Santo by W. G. Sebald . First US Edition stated, 2005 Random House. First Printing with full number line, 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled bottom spine end, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or any other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with moderate to heavy surface wear, mild edge wear, and the price on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
In this final collection of sixteen essays by W. G. Sebald, one of the most elegant and incisive authors of our time, all of his trademark themes are contained–the power of memory and personal history, the connections between images in the arts and life, the presence of ghosts in places and artifacts.
Four pieces pay tribute to the Mediterranean island of Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present. In “A Little Excursion to Ajaccio,” Sebald visits the birthplace of Napoleon and muses on the hints in his childhood home of a great man’s future. Inspired by an Italian cemetery, “Campo Santo” is a reverie on death, ranging from the ambiguity of inscriptions to the size of and adornment of gravestones to the blood-soaked legend of Saint Julien.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
