Extremely Rare Proof
CARTER, Angela. Nights at the Circus Prepublication Proof Excerpt. London: Chatto & Windus. 1984.
Royal 8vo. Original linen backed card wrappers in blue; loosely inserted publisher's card, "With Compliments: Duncan Crole"; pp. [iv], 50; head and tail of spine of dust wrapper a little scuffed.
Extremely rare. On Rear inside flap is printed, "Proof Only. Provisional publication date: September, Probable Price: £8.95, Size: Met Royal 8vo, No of PP: 304". Featuring the first two chapters of the iconic novel. Definitely prepublication but exact purpose unclear.
Best known for her feminist magical realism, Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus was originally published in 1984, and went on to achieve winner of the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
Carter would summarise Nights at the Circus as a form of "Psychedelic Dickens" in communciaiton with her friend, the literary agent Deborah Rogers, as a consequence of the relationship she forges between fantasy asnd realism.
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