jonathan cape penguin random house (20 risultati)

Condizione: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Condizione: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. None (illustratore). 1st Edition. This copy is Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket - 5th printing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. This copy is a 3rd printing - Near Fine hardcover with the only blemish being an ever slightly weakened spine on the inside beside the title page. Otherwise no other blemishes to the book or dustjacket. An excellent reading copy - still bright and clean.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is As New in As New Dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. None (illustratore). 1st Edition. This copy is As New in As New dustjacket - this is the 2nd printing/2nd impression.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is As New in As New dustjacket - first edition, first printing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, with the number "1" on the printer's page. Illustrated throughout the text. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards, with copper block titles to the spine. Head and tail of spine just very slightly creased, otherwise no discernible faults. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps. Corners sharp. Page block edges nice and clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Paper stock clean. ***In a near fine colour printed dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £18.99. The dustwrapper is near fine, with no creasing or other faults - bright and clean with no fading - just very slight rubbing to the edges. ***346 pages including an extensive section of Notes, huge Bibliography, and Index at the back of the book. 240mm x 160mm. ***'Carmen Callil explores her routes in a book that is a miracle of research and whose writing is fuelled by righteous anger - a story of Empire, migration and the poverty and injustice of nineteenth-century England.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) *** 'Dame Carmen Thérèse Callil, DBE, FRSL (15 July 1938 - 17 October 2022) was an Australian publisher, writer and critic who spent most of her career in the United Kingdom. She founded Virago Press in 1973 and received the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature in 2017. She has been described by Gail Rebuck as "the most extraordinary publisher of her generation"'. From 1967 to 1970, she was publicity manager of the paperback imprint Panther Books. Callil later took responsibility for all imprints of Granada Publishing, and then at Anthony Blond and André Deutsch. She left to work for Ink, a countercultural newspaper founded by Richard Neville, Andrew Fisher, Felix Dennis and Ed Victor in 1971. At Ink, Callil met Marsha Rowe and Rosie Boycott, who founded the feminist magazine Spare Rib in June 1972. In 1973, Callil founded Virago Press (initially known as Spare Rib Books), to "publish books which celebrated women and women's lives, and which would, by so doing, spread the message of women's liberation to the whole population", through the work of new and neglected women writers. Rowe and Boycott became directors of Virago in its first years. At Virago, among other business and editorial aspects of the company she was responsible for the creation and development of the Virago Modern Classics list (choosing a distinctive green colour for the books' spines), which brought back into print many hundreds of the best women's works of the past.' (Wiki) ***First impression of the true first edition. A beautiful copy of this fascinating historical biography / family history of the founder of the Virago Press. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is As New in As New Dustjacket. As confirmed by the Publisher, this copy was SIGNED by the author before distribution to the bookstores. It also has a different ISBN label on the rear of the dustjacket with ISBN 2928377278250. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Jacket by Simon Kerola (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some nasty grubby to front and back white parts of jacket, front corners slightly bruised, 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover, not price clipped (£14.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy. 186pp. Something unspeakable has happened to sisters July and September. Desperate for a fresh start, their mother Sheela moves them across the country to an old family house that has a troubled life of its own. Noises come from behind the walls. Lights flicker of their own accord. Sleep feels impossible, dreams are endless. In their new, unsettling surroundings, July finds that the fierce bond she's always had with September, forged with a blood promise when they were children, is beginning to change in ways she cannot understand. Taut, transfixing and profoundly moving 'Sisters' explodes with the fury and joy of adolescence. It is a story of sibling love and sibling envy that fans of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King will devour. Quite scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. First UK printing, with number line to 1. Signed by Vuong at half title. Orange boards with white spine titling, fine. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good in Mylar with bumped spine foot. Pages bright, text unmarked. Signed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, signed by Barnes on the title page, has a mild skew to the binding, and very slight bumps to the spine ends and upper corner of the back cover, otherwise a solid, tight Near Fine copy in a like unclipped dust jacket, which has very minor bumps to the spine ends and corners. Jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Jacket by Pietari Pasti (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLUE PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'To Ann Singh-Toor June 2016, David Aaronovitch'. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, bottom corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£17.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 309pp. In July 1961 just before David Aaronovitch's seventh birthday Yuri Gagarin came to London. The Russian cosmonaut was everything the Aaronovitch family wished for, a popular and handsome embodiment of modern communism. But who were they, these ever hopeful, defiant and (had they but known it) historically doomed people? Like a non magical version of the wizards of J. K. Rowling's world, they lived secretly with and parallel to the non communist majority, sometimes persecuted, sometimes ignored, but carrying on their own ways and traditions. Where others went to church they went to Socialist Sunday School, society's up was their down and its heroes were their villains. Who wanted American TV when you could have Russian movies? A memoir of early life among communists 'Party Animals' first took David Aaronovitch back through his own memories of belief and action. But there was much more to it. He found himself studying the old secret service files, uncovering the unspoken shame and fears that provided the unconscious background to his own existence as a party animal. Only then did he begin to understand what had come before, both the obstinate heroism and the monstrous cowardice. And the elements that shape our fondest beliefs. Scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Jacket and illustrations by Robert Seymour (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£20.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 802pp, illustrated, decorated endpapers. On 31 March 1836 the publishers Chapman & Hall launched the first issue of a new monthly periodical entitled 'The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club'. Conceived and created by the artist Robert Seymour, it contained four of his illustrations; the words to accompany them were written by a young journalist who used the pen name Boz. The story of a sporting cum drinking club presided over by plump loveable Mr Pickwick, assisted by his cockney manservant Sam Weller, 'The Pickwick Papers' soon became a popular sensation, outselling every other book except the Bible and Shakespeare's plays, and read and discussed by the entire population of the British Isles, from the duke's drawing room to the lowliest chophouse. The fame of Mr Pickwick soon spread worldwide, making 'The Pickwick Papers' the greatest literary phenomenon in publishing history. But one does not need to have read a single word of 'The Pickwick Papers' to be enthralled by the story of how this extraordinary novel came to be. The creation and afterlife of 'The Pickwick Papers' is the subject of Stephen Jarvis's novel, 'Death and Mr Pickwick'.This vast, intricately constructed, indeed Dickensian work is at once the ultimate homage to a much loved book, tracing its genesis and subsequent history in fascinating detail, and a damning indictment of how an ambitious young writer expropriated another man¿s ideas and then engaged in an elaborate cover up of 'The Pickwick Papers' true origins. The author's debut novel, a future classic.

First edition. Octavo; hardcover; 199pp. Mild wear; slightly rolled. Dustwrapper mildly edgeworn. Near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st U.K. Edition, Signed, Limited. First UK edition, hardcover in green silk, London Review Bookshop Limited Editions, signed by McCarthy and marked limited no. 8/100, extra material in pocket at rear, has a tiny lean to the binding, and a hint of wear to the spine ends, otherwise a solid, tight, clean Near Fine copy in a beautiful like slipcase. Additional images available upon request.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Signed, Limited. First edition, hardcover bound in quarter green goat skin over patterned boards, London Review Bookshop Limited Editions, signed by McEwan and limited no. 17/75, has a tiny skew to the binding, and a touch of bowing to the front cover, otherwise a solid, tight, sharp Near Fine copy in a beautiful like slipcase. Additional images available upon request.

A collection of 9 books from the estate of Bill and Tom Owen. Including: Bill Owen's copies of his own plays, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and Party for Jeremy, both with quite extensive pencil alterations and corrections in his hand, a copy of Owen's 'The Ragged School' inscribed by Bill in ink to the title page: "To you both Love Dad.", the recipient presumably his son, Tom. There is also an unjacketed first edition of William Inge's Come Back Little Sheba with Bill Owen's name and address neatly written in ink to the front endpaper, and heavily marked up working copies of plays he performed in: Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf', Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion' and a collection of Seven Plays by Eugene O'Neill, several marked up and with some loosely inserted notes. There is also Tom Owen's marked up copy of Terence Rattigan's 'The Browning Version' and a copy of O'Neill's 'The Iceman Cometh' with a loosely inserted postcard to Bill dated July 1979 from someone at the National Theatre. Condition varies, but on the whole the books are well worn with plenty of signs of hard practical use, toning, creasing, rubbing and staining etc, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists has lost its rear cover and the front cover is detached. A fascinating insight into Bill Owen's working life as a playwright and actor prior to achieving wider fame in his long-running role of Compo in Last of the Summer Wine, much of it indicative of his firmly left-wing political views and working class background.