Samantha Harvey — Orbital
London, Jonathan Cape, 2023 . First edition. Cloth. A fine signed example of the true first edition, first impression, of Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize winning novel, in the first issue dust wrapper. Flat signed by the author to the title page.The first edition, first impression, in the original unclipped first issue dust wrapper.Identified via presence of correct ISBN (9781787334342) to both the book itself and the dust wrapper, and with the correct blue boards, and with the title to the dust wrapper front wrap in the smaller font.Harvey presents a celebrated work of literary fiction set aboard the International Space Station, and told over the course of 24 hours. Each chapter of the novel covers a single 90-minute orbit around Earth, with 16 orbits in the 24 hours.The novel won the 2024 Booker Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.
