Sugar and Rum. A novel.
by BARRY UNSWORTH
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 247pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A hint of tanning to the leaf margins, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's ninth novel, detailing the exploits of a writer struggling to complete a novel about the Liverpool slave trade (Unsworth wrote this novel to try to get over his own writer's block during the writing of his Booker Winning 'Sacred Hunger', which was eventually published four years later)..
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- Bookseller
- Clearwater Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BC13401
- Title
- Sugar and Rum. A novel.
- Author
- BARRY UNSWORTH
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton, London
- Date Published
- 1988
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