Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first Paperback edition, early printing of Metroland by Julian Barnes. First Vintage Books Edition stated, July 1992 Vintage. Fifth Printing with complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 .
The exterior of this trade paperback edition is in Very Good condition, with clean, illustrated covers with no creases, mild surface wear, strong title on a square spine, lightly marked page blocks, a tight binding with no cracks, bumped top spine end, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is also in Very Good condition with an erased price on the first free end paper and no other marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership. The rear end paper and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
Only the author of Flaubert’s Parrot could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of us call “growing up” and others “selling out.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
