The Master - SIGNED FIRST PRINTING

Toibin, Colm

ISBN 10: 0330485652 / ISBN 13: 9780330485654

Published by Scribner, London, 2004

About this Item

Near fine first printing in fine dust wrapper. An unread copy with clean, sharp boards and a complete dust wrapper. Patches of flecking or foxing to the edges of the text block. A few brown spots to the base of the rear panel. Signed by the author to the title page without inscription.

Seller Inventory # 009866

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Master - SIGNED FIRST PRINTING
• Publisher: Scribner, London
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330485652
• ISBN 13: 9780330485654
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

It is January 1895 and Henry James's play Guy Domville, from which he hoped to make a fortune, has failed on the London stage. The Master opens with this disaster and takes James through the next five years, as having found his dream retreat, he moves to Rye in Sussex. It is there he writes his short masterpiece, The Turn of the Screw, in which he used much of his own life as an exile in England and a member of one of the great eccentric American families. He is impelled by the need to work and haunted by sections of his own past, including his own failure to fight in the American Civil War, the golden summer of 1865, and the death of his sister Alice. He is watchful and witty, relishing the England in which he has come to live and regretting the New England he has left.

About the Author

Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of several novels, including The Master, Brooklyn, and The Magician, and two collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Tóibín was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024.