Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of The The Venetian’s Wife: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Metamorphosis by Nick Bantock in a new archival wrap. First Edition unstated, 1996 Chronicle Books. First Printing with complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a square spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and two bumped corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the half title page. No other marks, inscriptions, or 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 price on the front flap, mild surface and edge wear, and looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Nick Bantock’s illustrated novel, The Venetian’s Wife, is part love story, part mystery, and part ghostly tale –and an altogether bewitching brew of sensuality and lost treasures. Thoroughly bored with her job at the local museum, Sarah heads to the gallery to take another look at that new drawing, the one she can’t stop thinking about, the one of the Hindu god Shiva, who dances…That’s when it all begins.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
