Isbn: 9781926428154 - the chemistry of tears (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed & inscribed by Peter Carey to the previous owner on the title page. 1st Australian edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine.

Hardback. 1. The Chemistry of Tears is both wildly entertaining and deeply moving, a portrait of love and loss that is simultaneously delicate and anarchic. At its heart is an image only the masterful Peter Carey could breath such life into - an object made of equal parts magic, art and science, a delight that contains the seeds of our age's downfall. When Catherine's lover dies suddenly, she has no one to turn to - their affair had been disguised from their colleagues and his family - except her work. A middle-aged curator in a London museum, Catherine is given a very particular project by the perceptive head of her department: a box of intricate clockwork parts that appear to be the remains of a nineteenth century automaton - a beautifully made mechanical bird. When she discovers that the box also contains the diary of the man who commissioned the machine, she is partially rescued from one obsession by another - who were Henry Brandling and the mysterious, visionary clockmaker he hired to make a gift for his absent son? And what was the end result that now sits in pieces in her studio? 2012. First edition, first printing. A very good copy with light rubbing of the board edges, lightly tanned pages and a small area of remnant paper affixed to the front free endpaper. The d/w is fine.…

Hard Cover. F-. First Edition. F/F-. 8vo. original pictorial grey boards (paperstock a trifle toned) in unpriced dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed, tiny discreet silverfish track to lower panel); pp. [vi (last blank)], 272 (last blank). A near fine copy.

Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Signed by the author. Octavo. 269pp. Original black marbled boards with white spine titles. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st edition, 1st impression Australian edition.