The Complete Set of Edward St Aubyn Novels, each signed by the author
ST AUBYN, Edward. The Complete Set of Novels, each signed by the author.
London: Heinemann/Chatto & Windus/Picador/Hogarth/Harvill Secker, 1992-2021
8vo., 10 volumes; publisher’s boards with unclipped pictorial dustwrappers; sporadic and very minimal spots to text blocks, with occasional creasing to the tips of dust jackets; some pages a touch toned, particularly in the earlier volumes; Vol III, On the Edge in paperback form as issued; Vol VI, Mother’s Milk, with ‘Signed by the author’ sticker to the upper panel; a near-fine set, rare complete thus.
The complete set of all ten St Aubyn novels, including the Patrick Melrose series, as well as every other published novel by the author, all signed, mostly in his customary blue ink to the title pages. On the Edge contains the full number line 1-10 and the one ISBN listed to the publication page - we have not been able to trace a hardback edition.
Comprising:
Never Mind
Bad News
Some Hope
On the Edge
A Clue to the Exit
Mother’s Milk
At Last
Lost for Words
Dunbar
and
Double Blind.
Edward St Aubyn was born in 1960 in London, and describes a difficult and unhappy upbringing plagued by abuse and drug use. His first three novels, Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope formed the basis of his now popular Patrick Melrose series, which are based on his own life, centring around the protagonist who grows up in a dysfunctional upper-class English family. It details his father's sexual abuse, the deaths of both parents, alcoholism, heroin addiction and recovery, marriage and parenthood, and were hailed as a powerful exploration of how emotional health can be carved out of childhood trauma. In 2006 Mother’s Milk was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
In an article for the Guardian published in 2011, St Aubyn is quoted thus: "The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth…I have spent 22 years trying to transform painful lived experience into what I hope is pleasurable reading experience. The intention was to make a work of art rather than a confession."
ST AUBYN, Edward. The Complete Set of Novels, each signed by the author.
London: Heinemann/Chatto & Windus/Picador/Hogarth/Harvill Secker, 1992-2021
8vo., 10 volumes; publisher’s boards with unclipped pictorial dustwrappers; sporadic and very minimal spots to text blocks, with occasional creasing to the tips of dust jackets; some pages a touch toned, particularly in the earlier volumes; Vol III, On the Edge in paperback form as issued; Vol VI, Mother’s Milk, with ‘Signed by the author’ sticker to the upper panel; a near-fine set, rare complete thus.
The complete set of all ten St Aubyn novels, including the Patrick Melrose series, as well as every other published novel by the author, all signed, mostly in his customary blue ink to the title pages. On the Edge contains the full number line 1-10 and the one ISBN listed to the publication page - we have not been able to trace a hardback edition.
Comprising:
Never Mind
Bad News
Some Hope
On the Edge
A Clue to the Exit
Mother’s Milk
At Last
Lost for Words
Dunbar
and
Double Blind.
Edward St Aubyn was born in 1960 in London, and describes a difficult and unhappy upbringing plagued by abuse and drug use. His first three novels, Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope formed the basis of his now popular Patrick Melrose series, which are based on his own life, centring around the protagonist who grows up in a dysfunctional upper-class English family. It details his father's sexual abuse, the deaths of both parents, alcoholism, heroin addiction and recovery, marriage and parenthood, and were hailed as a powerful exploration of how emotional health can be carved out of childhood trauma. In 2006 Mother’s Milk was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
In an article for the Guardian published in 2011, St Aubyn is quoted thus: "The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth…I have spent 22 years trying to transform painful lived experience into what I hope is pleasurable reading experience. The intention was to make a work of art rather than a confession."
ST AUBYN, Edward. The Complete Set of Novels, each signed by the author.
London: Heinemann/Chatto & Windus/Picador/Hogarth/Harvill Secker, 1992-2021
8vo., 10 volumes; publisher’s boards with unclipped pictorial dustwrappers; sporadic and very minimal spots to text blocks, with occasional creasing to the tips of dust jackets; some pages a touch toned, particularly in the earlier volumes; Vol III, On the Edge in paperback form as issued; Vol VI, Mother’s Milk, with ‘Signed by the author’ sticker to the upper panel; a near-fine set, rare complete thus.
The complete set of all ten St Aubyn novels, including the Patrick Melrose series, as well as every other published novel by the author, all signed, mostly in his customary blue ink to the title pages. On the Edge contains the full number line 1-10 and the one ISBN listed to the publication page - we have not been able to trace a hardback edition.
Comprising:
Never Mind
Bad News
Some Hope
On the Edge
A Clue to the Exit
Mother’s Milk
At Last
Lost for Words
Dunbar
and
Double Blind.
Edward St Aubyn was born in 1960 in London, and describes a difficult and unhappy upbringing plagued by abuse and drug use. His first three novels, Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope formed the basis of his now popular Patrick Melrose series, which are based on his own life, centring around the protagonist who grows up in a dysfunctional upper-class English family. It details his father's sexual abuse, the deaths of both parents, alcoholism, heroin addiction and recovery, marriage and parenthood, and were hailed as a powerful exploration of how emotional health can be carved out of childhood trauma. In 2006 Mother’s Milk was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
In an article for the Guardian published in 2011, St Aubyn is quoted thus: "The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth…I have spent 22 years trying to transform painful lived experience into what I hope is pleasurable reading experience. The intention was to make a work of art rather than a confession."