Captain Correlli's Mandolin by Louis de good Bernières, TRUE 1ST UK EDITION, 1st printing, 1994

VERY GOOD condition — Secure binding. Crisp extremities. Clean, unmarked pages. NOTE: Boards: very slight crimping to top and bottom of spine; slight cock to spine. Dust jacket: minor chipping to top of spine and outside corners; wear to bottom outside corners. Slight age discoloration to page edges. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. If unsure, please ask.

Here on offer is a very nice copy of Louis de Bernières "Captain Correlli's Mandolin", the award-winning novel set during the Italian and German occupation of Greece during the Second World War. This copy is a true 1st UK edition, 1st printing of the work published by Secker & Warburg in 1994. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve.

" 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin', released simultaneously in the United States as Corelli's Mandolin,[1] is a 1994[2] novel by the British writer Louis de Bernières, set on the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Italian and German occupation of the Second World War.

The main characters are Antonio Corelli, an Italian army captain, and Pelagia, the daughter of the local physician, Dr Iannis. An important event in the novel is the massacre of Italian troops by the Germans in September 1943—the Italian Acqui Division had refused to surrender and had fought the Germans for nine days before running out of ammunition. Some 1,500 Italian soldiers died in the fighting, 5,000 were massacred after surrendering, and the rest were shipped to Germany, of whom 3,000 good drowned when the ship carrying them hit a mine.

[In 1995, the novel won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book.] In 2003, the novel was listed at number 19 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.[3]"

This handsome copy would be a fine addendum to your 1st edition library.