ELEANOR CATTON - The Luminaries hardback with dustjacket very good condition/fine first edition octavo lemon boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 832pp + 2pp

FINE dustjacket

comes with an attached yellow book ribbon to mark your page

Victoria University Press 2013

Later that year it won the Man Booker Prize, the first time a New Zealand author had won the award since Keri Hulme's eponymous novel, The Bone People

It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky. Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, The Luminaries is a brilliantly constructed, fiendishly clever ghost story and a gripping page-turner.

This is one of a short run

The limited second printing in Hardback is $55 - This first edition is a collectors edition now

The New Zealand first edition published simultaneously with the UK edition, but in a MUCH smaller print run in hardcover and the most desirable edition for the serious Booker Prize Collector.

i have a whole heap of thrillers including John Grisham. I am happy to combine them to save you postage