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Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Beige boards quarterbound in brown cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt. Beige endpapers. 560 pages. First Printing. There is a faint soilmark on the top edge of the textblock, otherwise Fine: clean, bright and soundly bound. All tips are sharp. The dust jacket, glossy in an archival sleeve, is mildly rubbed and has a small,closed nick at the head of the spine panel; the original price (18.95) is intact. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page along with a lengthy,penned passage from the novel. For the purposes of provenance, the original owner pencilled a brief notation at the bottom of the final page. The Cider House Rules was made into a highly-acclaimed film which won multiple Acadamy Awards in 2000. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in…

The Cider House Rules is a novel by American writer John Irving, published in 1985. The story, set in rural Maine, deals with themes of birth, death, and the choices that shape our lives through the eyes of an orphaned boy, Homer Wells, and Dr. Wilbur Larch, an obstetrician and abortionist who runs the orphanage.