In 1960 Derek Raymond (aka Robin Cook), "an upper-class wide-boy", made front-page news when a Rubens and a Renoir disappeared. This autobiography by the Fifties wide-boy and amateur art-dealer, Sixties mainstream novelist and Eighties crime-writer, reflects the contradictions in his personality - a mixture of bleakness and urbanity, black despair and courteous generosity. These are the memoirs of a natural writer - one whose behaviour at times is reminiscent of the computer on which he writes, and its array of hidden files that hold the functions which make it the subtle and flexible machine that it is. Like the computer, the writer's performance is judged on the final, visible quality of his output, rather than the obscure, cryptic processes that contributed to it. The book represents an attempt to break the codes and gain access to the author's personality. Derek Raymond's books include the series of four "Factory" crime novels.
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Destinazione, tempi e costiDa: Invisible Books, Brighton, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. First printing in unclipped jacket, in apparently unread condition. Top edge of page-block foxed. Codice articolo 2439
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Da: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 342. First edition, first impression. No inscriptions, not price-clipped. A black novel. ISBN: 0356206548 Fine in near fine dust wrapper. Just one slight crease to inner front flap. Codice articolo C92396
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Da: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. For some reason missing ffep, though it appears otherwise a fresh copy in VG unclipped jacket. Codice articolo ABE-1688904989130
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Da: The Glass Key, Montmorillon, Francia
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First edition. First printing. Black cloth boards stamped in silver on the spine. Name and address of ownership stamped on the ffe else a clean unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. Codice articolo 90751
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Da: beat book shop, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good +. First Edition First Printing. Codice articolo 110735
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