A sealed/new signed numbered & slipcased limited-edition of the final published novel from acclaimed and multiple award-winning American author, poet, writer and director Paul Auster, who died on 30 April 2024 aged 77.
He first came to global prominence in the mid-1980s with his trio of short detective novels collective known as The New York Trilogy . Subsequent works include The Music of Chance , The Book of Illusions and epic novel 4 3 2 1 , which featured on the 2017 Booker Prize Shortlist and was considered a strong contender for the prize.
Baumgartner published by Faber & Faber, London on 7 November 2023 as the trade edition, 1st edition, medium modern hardback, 208 pages.
This is a still-sealed copy of the exclusive signed & numbered slipcased limited-edition prepared by Faber & Faber. This copy is number 105 from the run of only 145 available copies in this format.
Still sealed within the original publisher box, which confirms this is copy number 105 on the label (the sealed publishers paper wrapping inside will also confirm the same number).
Photos 1-3 are of the sealed copy in this listing. Photos 4 onwards are stock images from Fabers website showing some of the external & internal layout for illustrative purposes.
I am also providing an exclusive promotional double-sided bookmark that was produced by Faber for the release of the trade hardback edition.
This limited edition version of the book is signed, numbered and slipcased, with high specification production throughout. Just 145 copies available.
The edition is printed on 80gsm Munken Premium Cream, with signed and numbered opening page;
Sewn hardback with h/t bands; Half bound style spine in Ratchfords Windsor Raglan, panels in Colorplan Hot Pink Laid; Spine blocked in black pigment.
Slipcased covered in Wicotex Toile de Marais Noir d'Encre cloth, lined with Wibalin Natural Olive WBN 572, individually wrapped in brown paper, labelled and numbered and packed into individual cartons, also labelled.
A late masterpiece of love, memory and grief by Paul Auster, ‘one of the great American prose stylists of our time'.
The life of Sy Baumgartner – noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor – has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. Now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. But Anna's voice is everywhere still, in every spiral of memory and reminiscence, in each recalled episode of the passionate forty years they shared.
Rich with compassion, wit and an eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary life, Baumgartner is one of Auster's most luminous works – a tender late masterpiece of the ache of memory.
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