INVENTORY #134906
Cork
BOYD, William; BECK, Ian (illus.)
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A pragmatic young British widow, proprietor of a cork-processing factory, embarks on an affair with her husband's former office manager, although her lover will meet only once a year. Punctuating the story are excerpts from a monograph on the peculiar traits of cork trees, injecting a seemingly dry scientific treatise into a tale of passion. As it turns out, the rare characters of cork—''lightness, impermeability, elasticity''—and the love affair have much in common.
Publication Info
- Publisher: Ulysses
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1994
- Place Published: London
- ISBN: 094802190X
Details
- Condition: Fine
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
Edition limited to 236 copies, of which this is no. 112. Unpaginated. 27 cm. B&w frontispiece and decorations by Beck. Pale yellow paper-covered boards patterned in green with dark green morocco spine lettered in gilt. Wrapped in mylar (removed for photo).