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Published by Doubleday, London, England, 2009
ISBN 10: 0385616244ISBN 13: 9780385616249
Seller: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, Not Price Clipped. British First. Complete number line from 1 to 10; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.
Published by DOUBLEDAY, LONDON, 2009
ISBN 10: 0385616244ISBN 13: 9780385616249
Seller: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Black Boards with white titles to spine, 240 x 160 mm approx. 458 pp + acknowledgments. First UK Edition 1st Impression 2009. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine/ Near Fine (Book- negligible shelf wear, no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- minimal shelf rubbing to extremities, non price clipped - cover £12.99. No notable defects to book or jacket). Please state when placing order if you would wish that a removable proprietary protective sleeve be fitted.
Published by Doubleday 2009, 2009
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Softcover octavo (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Doubleday, London, England, 2009
ISBN 10: 0385616244ISBN 13: 9780385616249
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Publisher: Doubleday, London, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.
Published by New York City, NY: Viking/Penguin Books, 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0670021482ISBN 13: 9780670021482
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 271 pages. Published in 2010. The author's breakthrough debut novel. One of the most sensational literary debuts of our time. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Paolo Giordano's "The Solitude of Prime Numbers" in a felicitous English translation. His first novel, published when he was 27 years old. Its global success is astonishing because it is a thoughtful, subtle, and unflinching meditation on human pain, not the most resonant literary subject for most readers. "Follows two scarred people whose lives intersect but cannot seem to join. Alice and Mattia, both survivors of childhood traumas, are the odd-ones-out amid the adolescents in their high school. Mattia never recovered from the loss of his sister while Alice still suffers the effects of a skiing accident that damaged her physically and stunted her ability to trust anyone. Now teenagers, Mattia, also addicted to self-injury, has withdrawn into the world of numbers, and Alice gains control by starving herself. When they meet, they recognize something primal in each other, but timing and awkwardness keep their friendship on tenuous ground until years later, their lives come together one last time. Giordano uses Mattia and Alice's trajectory to ask whether there are some people, the prime numbers among us, who are destined to be alone, or whether two primes can come together" (Annie Bostrom). A withdrawn loner who hurts himself and a suicidal anorectic who is wary of other people are hardly the kinds of characters most people can identify with (rightly so). Giordano did not go to any MFA school of writing and instead, was working on his doctorate in Particle Physics. Yet, he has pulled off every writer's wildest dream: His novel translated into 30 languages and sold millions of copies because he somehow found a way to make us care about Mattia and Alice. An absolute "must-have" title for Paolo Giordano collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Paolo Giordano. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in are lovely Souvenir Materials of the author's book launch event during which his signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws (even if they are New) because of shoddy packing on the publisher's part. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Premio Strega, the most important literary prize in Italy, for "The Solitude of Prime Numbers" in 2008. Paolo Giordano is the youngest winner ever in the Prize's history. One of the most brilliant new voices in contemporary literature. A fine copy. ISBN 0670021482. Signed by Author.