Synopsis
'One of the most exciting, and most mysteriously sublime, of contemporary European writers' Guardian In this major work, the finest of his career to date, W.G. Sebald traces the moving and epic story of Jacques Austerlitz. Sent to Wales on the last Kindertransport from Europe on the eve of the Second World War, five-year-old Austerlitz is adopted by Welsh Calvinists, who decide to remove any trace of his true origins. Throughout his life Austerlitz is haunted by feelings of otherness, but it is not until retirement that he embarks on a journey to make sense of his curious early memories, taking the reader back into the heart of pre-war Europe...
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W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted, Campo Santo and Silent Catastrophes among other publications.
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AUSTERLITZ (First edition - fifth impression)
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ISBN 10: 0241141257
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition in English. Fifth impression of the first edition in English, with the no. "5" on the printer's page. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. With monochrome photographic illustrations throughout. ***Near fine in burgundy cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine just very slightly creased. Corners sharp. Spine tight. Edges of page block nice and clean. Internally also near fine and clean with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. ***In a very good monochrome photo-illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £16.99 on the front flap. The top edge of the front panel has some creasing. No chips or tears. No marks. Spine of dustwrapper hardly faded at all with the titles still bright. ***224mm x 146mm. 416 pages. ***In the summer of 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the so-called Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasons of their own, the childless calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity. Austerlitz, who eventually becomes an architectural historian, goes through life assiduously avoiding all clues that might point to his origins and to the fate of his true parents. It is only in his retirement that the past returns to haunt him and makes him explore what happened to him half a century ago'. (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***A fifth impression of the first edition in English, complete in its original dustwrapper, in very nice condition. A heavy book, printed on thick photo-quality paper, and hard to find in such nice condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 8401
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition in English. First impression of the first edition in English, with the no. "1" on the printer's page. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. With monochrome photographic illustrations throughout. This copy has the first state dustwrapper, with the price £16.99 on the lower corner of the back flap. ***Near fine in burgundy cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Slight creasing to the head of the spine, but otherwise not creased or bumped. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight, without any reading creases. Top edge of page block nice and clean. ***In a very good monochrome photo-illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's price of £16.99 to the bottom corner of the back flap (first state). Please note that there is a 5cm closed tear at the top edge of the front panel near the spine. Extremities of dustwrapper slightly rubbed and creased. There is also a small patch of residue from a price sticker (since removed) on the back panel. There is some fading to the spine area, and a strip of fading to the front panel near the spine. Some uneven fading to the cream colour also on the back panel. A few small marks to the white areas (please see scans). The titles on the spine are still beautifully bright. No chips or loss. ***224mm x 146mm. 416 pages. ***In the summer of 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the so-called Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasons of their own, the childless calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity. Austerlitz, who eventually becomes an architectural historian, goes through life assiduously avoiding all clues that might point to his origins and to the fate of his true parents. It is only in his retirement that the past returns to haunt him and makes him explore what happened to him half a century ago'. (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***A first impression of the first edition in English, complete in its original dustwrapper, which is first state i.e. priced to the back flap not the front flap. A heavy book, printed on thick photo-quality paper, and very hard to find in such near fine condition in first impression. The dustwrapper is complete, but has the above-mentioned faults. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 8096
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First U.k. Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publisher's burgundy cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 0241141257 Pages: 432 Slight lean otherwise near fine in very good indeed dust jacket, with slight creasing at edges. No nicks, chips, tears, not price-clipped and no inscriptions. Decent copy. Seller Inventory # C83723
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SEBALD, W.G. Austerlitz. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2001. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. First English edition, first impression. Sebald's final novel. First issue dust-jacket with £16.99 to the rear flap. A haunting mixture of history and memoir, Austerlitz is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion. 414 pp. B/w photos. Hardback. (ISBN: 9780241141250). As new in dust-jacket. Seller Inventory # CRB44
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Austerlitz
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A genuine UK first edition/first printing, with the number '1' on the copyright page. The fourth of the author's books to be translated into English. Published shortly before his tragic death. This is a fantastic copy, not price-clipped, not ex-libris, and with no inscriptions or bookplates. Pages white and tight. No marks on jacket or book. Very tiny wear to top and bottom edges of jacket, hardly visible. All of our books are protected by a removable pastic cover, and dispatched with care. Seller Inventory # 000094
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Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Quite heavy bumping to bottom corners of boards. Light surface marking to front panel of the boards which are otherwise unmarked. Scattered brown spotting to the top edges of the pages and a few small stains to the fore edges. Trace of a price to the front free endpaper but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has some fading to the spine and light edge creasing and surface wear. First printing. Seller Inventory # 013642
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Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine unread condition first edition signed by author on title page. Free of owner's marks and binding VERY tight. Dust jacket fine and in protective archival sleeve. Historical fiction translated from German by Anthea Bell. signed by author or artist. Seller Inventory # 2158
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. First UK edition; first printing. 415pp. With black and white illustrations throughout. SIGNED by the author to title page. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Crease to leading corner of ffe. In fine first issue dust jacket [with price to lower panel flap as called for]. *** A scarce signed first UK printing of this modern masterpiece. W.G. Sebald (18 May 1944 - 14 December 2001) died shortly after the publication of this brilliant final novel. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 901399
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