London: Faber and Faber. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Light shelf wear to unclipped DJ, corner crease to rear endpaper, light foxing to edges of reading block. ; First UK edition, first printing with full number line, 2002. Black boards with cream lettering to spine, orange endpapers. Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. DJ design by Pentagram. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 336 pages; After losing his wife and young sons in a plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann, and finds himself enraptured. Mann was a comic genius, his trademark a fluttering black moustache. But one morning in 1929, at the height of his fame, he walked out of his house and was never heard from again. Zimmer's fascination with Mann drives him to publish a study of his work; whereupon he receives a letter postmarked New Mexico, supposedly written by Mann's wife, and inviting him to visit. Could the great Mann be still alive...? .

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Bookseller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 33919
Title: The Book of Illusions
Author: Auster, Paul
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10: 0571212131
ISBN 13: 9780571212132
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2002
Bookseller catalogs: Fireside Reads;

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