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A hardcover first UK edition, first printing of John Irving's eighth novel, A SON OF THE CIRCUS, published by Bloomsbury UK , in April 1994.
True first edition, first printing, with full numberline to 1.
Condition - Book - Very Good , SLIGHT spine lean, clean throughout , some age browning to top edges of page block. Solid in black and dark blue cloth. Red ribbon bookmark.
Condition - Dustjacket - shows creasing at spine top edges, creasing at corners, mostly lower edges, some minor creases at edges throughout, and a number of long folds /creases to inner front flaps,( see photograph) at the price label - not price clipped. About Good overall. now in a protective Brodart DJ protector.
'The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in the circus'. Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen - a 59-year-old orthopaedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Once, twenty years ago, Dr Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, two decades later, the doctor will be reacquainted with the murderer....
