Signed first printing of the first trade edition, a whimsical family saga of a hotel and a bear and an opera house.
Very good in very good plus jacket.
Price: $200.00
"So here comes Sigmund Freud," Father thought: he was falling in love, anything was possible.
Irving's fifth published novel and the basis for a 1984 film adaptation by director Tony Richardson, which inspired co-star Rob Lowe with an everlasting burning hatred for Orion Studios for "killing" a good story; though the story survives in the novel, just the same as it ever was.
New York: E.P. Dutton, (1981). 9'' x 6.25''. Original half white cloth with dove grey paper-covered boards. Silver-stamped spine. In original unclipped ($15.50) dust jacket designed by Terry Fehr. Grey endpapers, fore-edge machine deckle. [14], 401, [1] pages. Scattered foxing to cloth. Light creasing to one corner of rear jacket flap; bit of toning to rear panel.
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