Fitzgerald OFFSHORE 1979 Signed First Booker Priz

Title: Offshore
Author: Penelope Fizgerald
Publisher: Collins
Printing Year: 1979 Signed first edition

Condition/Details: Bound in gray cloth with bright gilt embossing to spine, this volume is a scarce autographed copy of the winner of the 1979 Booker Prize for Fiction. It recalls her time spent on boats in Battersea by the Thames. The novel centralizes around the idea of liminality, expanding upon it to include the notion: 'liminal people,' people who do not belong to the land or the sea, but somewhere in-between. The epigraph, "che mena il vento, e che batte la pioggia, e che s'incontran con si aspre lingue" (whom the wind drives, or whom the rain beats, or those who clash with such bitter tongues) comes from Canto XI of Dante's Inferno. (summary courtesy of Wikipedia)The volume shows very light external age/wear, and is solidly bound with clean, bright pages. Dustjacket is in glassine cover. The book measures approximately 5.5" x 8.5" and contains 141 pages. Shipping cost (within the U.S.) for this lot will be: $4.50