First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 194, [6 (blank)]. Red cloth boards with gilt titling to spine; black endpapers. Cover art by Rob Fuller. With integral red ribbon bookmarker.
Signed by Author to title page. Toning to textblock, else Fine.
Crace's seventh book. A 2001 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A cumulative novel in sixty-four short fictions, exploring human foibles through the prism of our relationship with food. By the winner of the 2000 National Book Critics' Circle Award for Fiction for Being Dead. "Delicious... the sheer quantity of inventiveness is astounding." –Mail on Sunday