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Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First printing of the first edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. ***Near fine in colour illustrated card covers. The covers are clean and unmarked, with no obvious faults - just slight rubbing at the edges. No reading lean. No reading creases to spine. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Covers bright. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No creases or tears. ***254 pages plus two-page publisher's advert and note on contributors and advert on rear pastedown. ***256 pages plus advert on rear pastedown. 210mm x 144mm. ***Jonathan Miller, Nicholas Shakespeare, Ian Hamilton, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Gavin Young, Václav Havel, Jonathan Raban, Bill Bryson, Jeanette Winterson, Martha Gellhorn et al. **Published in Spring 1988 - "Prague, Beirut, Des Moines, Derry, and the ugliest village in Essex. What is home for an Arab in Israel? Or for an exile returning to the Iowa county fair? Plus: Nicholas Shakespeare in Peru in search of the leader of the Shining Path, Abimael Guzman, and Ian Hamilton in pursuit of J.D. Salinger." (Quote taken from the Granta website) ***A first printing of an early issue of Granta magazine - now becoming hard to find. ***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.