The Double.
First Edition of The Double; Inscribed by Jose Saramago
The Double.
SARAMAGO, Jose.
$750.00
Item Number: 149868
Orlando: Harcourt, 2004.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Valerie Jose Saramago 29.10.2008.” Additionally signed twice by the jacket designer Claudine Mansour, on the front jacket panel and again on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Claudine G. Mansour. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
"Saramago is a writer, like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any improbability to life" (John Updike, The New Yorker).