Established
2004
Relaunched
2024
MintFirsts logo
Our booksHow we tradeAbout usCredits & thanksYour account
  • Home page
  • Our books
  • How we trade
  • About us
  • Credits & thanks
  • Your account
  • Your cart
MENU

The Comfort of Strangers

Signed first edition of Ian McEwan's The Comfort of Strangers

Ian McEwan

First edition. 8vo. Pp. 134, [2]. Publisher's brown cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt to spine. Jacket illustration by Mon Mohan, reproducing a Turner watercolour of the Grand Canal, Venice (priced £5.50 net to front flap).
Signed by Author to title page. Dustwrapper, which is usually prone to fading, is in flawless condition.
McEwan's second full length novel – shortlisted for the 1981 Booker Prize. Whilst on holiday in Venice, a young couple meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and gradually become drawn into a fantasy of obsession and violence. Basis for the 1990 movie, directed by Paul Schrader and with a screenplay by Harold Pinter; it starred Rupert Everett, Christopher Walken, Helen Mirren and Natasha Richardson. "An exquisite miniature gothic." –Chicago Tribune
special feature
signed
edition
first edition
format
hardback
publisher
Jonathan Cape
published in
London
publication year
1981
ISBN
0224019317
height × width
20.5 × 13.5 cm
genre
literary fiction
language
English
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
mint
of jacket
mint
GBP£ ​280
EUR€ ​336
USD$ ​356
ref.KK5 2YC