The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan ISBN 13: 9780241001943

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Hamish Hamilton, January 1995. First Edition. Cloth . Good/Fair. First UK edition in heavily stained & darkened dustjacket. Flap is not clipped. Orange cloth covered boards with gold lettering and stained textblock edges. Complete number string. Uncommon first by the 2012 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. 290 pages. Tiantang suantai zhi ge (The Garlic Ballads) was his second novel published originally in 1988.

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1995, first impression,. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0241001943 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 290pp, clean and tight, red cloth, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper plus wraparound band, not price-clipped, spine lettering and spine of the band faded. ISBN: 0241001943 .

London: Hamish Hamilton. This is a Near Fine Copy of this Book in Publisher's red cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Very Good Dust-Jacket,with one tiny closed tear to the bottom edge of the lower cover and with some general rubbing to the head of spine and along the top edge of the upper cover.Not price clipped and this copy has NO previous inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.Lovely clean copy internally of this book which was the 2012 Nobel Prize Winner.The work was originally banned in China and this absorbing tale is the story of a revolt among garlic farmers who are unable to sell their crop during a glut on the Garlic Market.Scarce Uk First Edition 1st Impression,8vo 290pp First Edition 1st Impression Size: 8vo - over 5¾" - 6¾" Tall . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1995.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1995 VG+/VG+. 8vo. original red boards gilt (lower fore-corner of a few leaves bumped, top edge slightly marked, else clean & bright throughout) in dustwrapper (slightly rubbed); pp. [x (last blank)], 290. A very good copy of the uncommon first UK issue. In 2012, the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".. First UK. Hard Cover. VG+/VG+.