An edition of the author's first novel in which Harry Joy recovers from death and believes he is in hell, but for the first time in his life he sees the world as it really is, and decides to explore the true nature of the underworld. From the author of JACK MAGGS, ILLYWHACKER and OSCAR AND LUCINDA (which won the Booker Prize).
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An edition of the author's first novel in which Harry Joy recovers from death and believes he is in hell, but for the first time in his life he sees the world as it really is, and decides to explore the true nature of the underworld. From the author of JACK MAGGS, ILLYWHACKER and OSCAR AND LUCINDA (which won the Booker Prize).
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Add this copy of Bliss to cart. $40.83, good condition, Sold by Arapiles Mountain Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Castlemaine, VIC, AUSTRALIA, published 1981 by Faber & Faber.
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G in VG- jacket. G/VG-. 8vo. original black boards (ex-library with occ. rsms, some creasing and marking to early leaves only, blank labels to pastedowns, slightly rubbed & thumbed, hinges cracked with tape strengthening, some leaf edge spotting) in foil dustwrapper £6.50 (rubbed and creased, as usual); pp. 296. A good reading copy.
Add this copy of Bliss to cart. $41.92, good condition, Sold by Cornell Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tewkesbury, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1981 by London: Faber, 1981.
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First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 296pp. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. Light foxing to the endpapers and the edges of the text block; overall, the book is in good to very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (a little rubbed). ISBN 0571117694.
Add this copy of Bliss to cart. $62.50, like new condition, Sold by Eureka Books of CA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Eureka, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1981 by Faber and Faber.
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Near Fine jacket. 296 pages. The author's first novel, the story of an ad man who is changed by a near-death experience. First British edition (first printing). Faint vertical creases to front free endpaper and first few pages, else a fine copy in a very nearly fine dust jacket.
Add this copy of Bliss ++++ a Signed Uk First Edition-First Printing to cart. $118.54, very good condition, Sold by Zeitgeist Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Twickenham, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1981 by Faber & Faber.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 1st Printing. A VG+ UK first edition, first printing hardback-in a VG+ dustjacket-not price-clipped-fitted with a removable, clear mylar sleeve-All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days)-SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR-Pictures available upon request.
Add this copy of Bliss to cart. $151.58, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1981 by Faber & Faber.
Add this copy of Bliss to cart. $250.00, very good condition, Sold by Last Exit Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Charlottesville, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1981 by Faber & Faber.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. 8vo. University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia. 1981. 296 pgs. Signed by Peter Carey on the title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bookstore stamp present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in this darkly funny novel, death is sometimes a necessary prelude to real life. Part The Wizard of Oz, part Dante's Inferno, and part Australian Book of the Dead, Bliss is a triumph of uninhibited storytelling from a writer of extravagant gifts. E-183; 8vo 8"-9" tall; Signed by Author.
