The Autograph Man

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 419, [1]. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Red endpapers. B/w line drawings by Roderick Mills. Fold-out reversible dust jacket, priced at £16.99 to front flap.

Signed by Author to title page. Light toning to textblock edges, else Fine.

A 2002 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the 2003 Orange prize. Winner of the 2003 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize. Author's second novel. A comic existential tour around the hollow trappings of celebrity told in the guise of a collector in hot pursuit of a 1940s movie star's impossibly rare autograph. "A brilliant comedy with a tantalising throb of mystic philosophy underneath." –Philip Hensher, Books of the Year, Spectator