introduction welsh irvine (11 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. 194 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Paperback in fine condition. This is a first edition 2nd printing with the number 1 missing from the number line.10 short crime stories featuring the city of Edinburgh, Scotland written in support of the onecity trust. The list of stories are in seller images.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 272 pages. 8.07x5.12x0.67 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 240 pages. 4.88x0.32x7.64 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of an as new hardcover in a fine dustjacket.10 short crime stories featuring the city of Edinburgh, Scotland written in support of the onecity trust. This copy is signed on the half title page by Lin Anderson, Ian Rankin, A.L. Kennedy and James Robertson. The list of stories are in the seller images. Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. First edition, first issue. Octavo, pp. 223. Publishers' black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth rubbed to lower edge; contents clean and bright with author signatures to verso half-title and title page. Just a hint of creasing to dust-jacket spine tips. A very good copy in like dust-jacket. Ten short crime stories inspired by the city of Edinburgh and commissioned by the OneCity Trust, each by a different bestselling author, with introduction by Irvine Welsh. All the authors as well as Welsh have signed this copy.

2011, London, Penguin Books, Modern Classics, 259 paginas, 20x13, cubiertas en tapa blanda ilustrada, 250 gramos, buen estado.

First edition of this collection initiated by four of Edinburgh's most famous authors to benefit One City Trust, a charity committed to tackling social injustice and inequality in Edinburgh. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh on the half-title page. Introduction by J. K. Rowling. Foreword by Rt Hon. Lesley Hinds. In fine condition. OneCity Trust was established in Edinburgh in 2003 in response to the OneCity report of the Lord Provostâs Commission on Social Exclusion. Rowling states in her introduction to this work produced in support of the Trust, "As it happens, I have never lived so long anywhere either as adult or child, as I have lived here. Edinburgh is home now, it is part of me, and I had come to love it long before Harry Potter hit the bookshelves. I am proud to live here, and proud that my home city is committed to becoming a more inclusive place. OneCity seeks to unify: I cannot think of a better goal for Edinburgh, Scotland or the world.".

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. A Fine copy of this paperback signed by the three contributors on the half-title. Mint and unread. Signed by Author.

First printing of the first Ben Jones illustrated Folio edition. Publisher's original black snakeskin textured boards blocked in iridescent brown to the upper board and spine, in the black card slipcase. Illustrated throughout with a frontispiece and six full page colour plates after paintings by Ben Jones. With an introduction by Irvine Welsh. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Housed in the structurally sound slipcase, which has a few light horizontal strips of fading to both sides. Burgess regularly expressed frustration at the disproportionate attention garnered by 'A Clockwork Orange'. The novel, he later recalled, "fell into a great silence, as many books do" following its publication in 1962, "but then a film was made of it ten years later, and [.] my trouble began". The film, of course, was Stanley Kubrick's infamous 1971 adaptation starring Malcolm McDowell as Alex (Andy Warhol had earlier adapted the book for his film 'Vinyl' in 1965), and the "trouble" was being "accused of fomenting violence, rape, mayhem, as it were, because of this film and because of the book it was based on". Burgess was ambivalent about the very aspects of the book that made it famous. "It was certainly no pleasure to me to describe acts of violence" he recalled in 1972, later expressing the more nuanced view that "I was sickened by my own excitement at setting it down". It is the book's language, however, that makes it so extraordinary, "nadsat", the vivid Anglo-American-Slavic language used by its characters generating its remarkable energy (and indeed violence). Burgess began writing the book upon his return to Britain from Malaya and Brunei in 1960 (he was an education officer for the Colonial Service) and it also reflects the author's reaction to a pop and youth culture (including violent clashes between Mods and Rockers) that he was experiencing for the first time after being away for six years. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition of this collection initiated by four of Edinburgh's most famous authors to benefit One City Trust, a charity committed to tackling social injustice and inequality in Edinburgh. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. One of 150 numbered copies signed by J.K. Rowling, Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith and Irvine Welsh on the half-title page, this is number 100. Introduction by J. K. Rowling. Foreword by Rt Hon. Lesley Hinds. Near fine in the original slipcase which is in fine condition. OneCity Trust was established in Edinburgh in 2003 in response to the OneCity report of the Lord Provostâs Commission on Social Exclusion. Rowling states in her introduction to this work produced in support of the Trust, "As it happens, I have never lived so long anywhere either as adult or child, as I have lived here. Edinburgh is home now, it is part of me, and I had come to love it long before Harry Potter hit the bookshelves. I am proud to live here, and proud that my home city is committed to becoming a more inclusive place. OneCity seeks to unify: I cannot think of a better goal for Edinburgh, Scotland or the world.".