BARKER (Pat) & JAMES (Angela)

The Ghost Road

BOOKER PRIZE PRESENTATION BINDING

Booker Prize binding by Angela James. Second printing. 8vo., 23 x 14cm, 278pp. Finely bound by Angela James in full orange-pink calf, covers airbrushed with design in grey, green and blue resembling a landscape, upper cover with inset bone, shell and fossil, lettered in white gold, rear board with onlay of red stained bandage, spine lettered in white gold, grey goatskin doublures with stencilled skull design, grey Japanese paper endpapers stencilled with black crosses, in original grey linen envelope style box with wooden clasp and silk pull tie, 1995.

£3,000.00

Title page signed and dated ‘Pat Barker 24th Oct. 1996’, with Booker Prize finalist 1995 calligraphic label to half-title, loosely inserted typed binding description by Angela James dated 6th November 1995.

Presented to Pat Barker at the Booker Prize shortlist announcement ceremony in 1995. The Designer Bookbinders have long been associated with the Booker Prize, with selected Fellows being chosen to create special presentation bindings for each of the authors on the Booker Prize shortlist.

Spine lightly scuffed, otherwise fine.

Stock No.
255650