jonathan cape random house london (104 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Dark blue cloth binding with gold colored print on spine. Navy blue endpapers. Tight, sound and unmarked. Dust jacket in mylar and not price-clipped. According to others this is the true first printing, done a week before the American version. For American edition se our number 011272.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of a near fine hardcover with creasing to the top of the spine, in a near fine dustjacket with the same creasing to the top of the spine. The story of George Hall and his family's trials and tribulations. This copy is inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. Inscribed by Author.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in very good condition. First edition, first printing. Light shelfwear to the jacket. Hardcover spine foot is a little bumped. Some foxing on the page block. Pages are clean; text is clear. CM. Used.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 352pp., xiii. '5' in number line. Notes, pp. 327-336; References (for each chapter), pp. 337-344; Index, pp. 345-352. Maroon boards with brilliant silver lettering on spine; "Contents" page has been oddly wrinkled on the right edge, but with NO tears, long flattened: describes much worse than it is (perhaps occurred in book manufacture), else As New. Photo-illustrated dustwrapper not price-clipped ([BPS} 16.99), with author name lettering in red across top front cover, just above title lettering in white; superficial horizontal creases across top edges, evidently due to dw riding too high on book (NO tears; no rubbing wear). Binding strong, corners sharp, no rubbing wear, no previous owner names. Clean text. Despite odd creases on small part of "Contents" page, book looks unread, unused.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. London. Jonathan Cape/Random House. 2012. First Edition/First Printing (full number line including the number 1 on the copyright page). Hard Cover. 
Medium 8vo 6.125 x 9.25 (15.6 x 23.5cm). approx. 275 pp. Black boards with silver titles to the spine. Faint toning to the edges of the text block. No other wear. Wraparound dust jacket artwork by David Hughes. Small nick near the head of the spine. No other wear. Book is fine; jacket near fine. Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful young criminal - is going about his morning duties in a London prison when he learns that he has just won GBP139,999,999.50 on the National Lottery. This is not necessarily good news for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Des Pepperdine, who still has reason to fear his uncle's implacable vengeance. Savage, funny, and mysteriously poignant, "Lionel Asbo" is a modern fairytale. The dust jacket will be protected with a new protective Brodart sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional images. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS or Transglobal Express. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message.

First edition first printing. Fine book (no marks or inscriptions) in a fine dustjacket (not price clipped, showing £16.99). Beautiful copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with jacket. Very good condition. First edition, first printing. Light foxing on the page block. Pages are clean; all text is clear. CM. Used.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. London. Jonathan Cape/Vintage/ Penguin Random House. 2019. First Edition. Fourth impression. Hard Cover. Scarlet boards with red metallic spine titles. Red dust jacket which is illustrated and has black and white titles. A less common edition of this title in as new condition. Quichotte, an ageing travelling salesman obsessed with TV, is on a quest for love. Unfortunately, his daily diet of reality TV, sitcoms, films, soaps, comedies and dramas has distorted his ability to separate fantasy from reality. He wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence, while obsessively writing love letters to a celebrity he knows only through his screen. Together the two innocents set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Quichotte's story is told by Brother, a mediocre spy novelist in the midst of a midlife crisis. As the stories of Brother and Quichotte intertwine, we are taken on a wild, picaresque journey through a country on the edge of moral and spiritual collapse.

London. Jonathan Cape/Penguin Random House. 2024. First Edition/First Printing (full number line including 1) to the copyright page. Hard Cover. Medium 8vo 9½" x 6 " approx.262 pp. Pale grey boards with white titles to the spine. The book is square and firmly bound. No previous ownership inscriptions or remainder marks. The boards are clean and unfaded, the corners and spine ends sharp. The pages and closed page edges are clean. The dust jacket is crisp and complete and unclipped at £20.00 . The colours are bright, fresh and unfaded, corners and spine ends are sharp. The book is not new but has no flaws or wear except for a tiny hint at the spine head; extremely minor. Book is as new; jacket is fine. A gripping story that explores the lives of women navigating their complex worlds, deftly weaving themes of hope, resilience, and the quest for identity. The dust jacket will be protected with a new inert archival Brodart sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional images. Postage price within the UK is tracked 48 by Royal Mail and is at cost up to 2KG. Outside the UK , book is couriered by Transglobal Express to a number of shippers including USPS, Landmark Global, TG Direct and Spring. All duties and taxes paid at our end. All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. First printing. "First published in Great Britain in 2004 by Jonathan Cape" appears on the copyright page. Clean black covers have the title and author stamped in bright gilt on the spine. Corners are sharp and the binding is tight. Pages are clean, smooth and unmarked. Includes 54 photographs in black and white. DJ is in fine condition with the original price on the inside flap -£ 25 or $65.00 Canadian.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. First Edition, with correct number line sequence, no writing, marks, underlining, or bookplates. No remainder marks. Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true and the corners are square. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. This collectible, " NEW" condition first edition/first printing copy is protected with a polyester archival dust jacket cover. Beautiful collectible copy. GIFT QUALITY Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of an as new hardcover in an as new dustjacket. A satire on modern England, the story is about creating a mini version, theme park of England on the Isle of Wright. When this book was shipped to Canada for sale the publishers created a different ISBN number for it. That sticker is not on this copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. First UK edition, hardcover, has a slight lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends, mild wear to the cover edges and corners, and thin raised creasing to the lamination on both covers. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight Very Good copy in a like dust jacket, which has very light bumps to the spine ends and corners, rubbing with faint smudging, and a touch of edge wear to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Illustrated (illustratore). Original publisher's black paper-covered boards, silver lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: xx, 348pp., richly illustrated, list illustrations, acknowledgements, epilogue, chapternotes & references, general bibliography, index. Fine copy.,

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. London. Jonathan Cape/Random House. 2021. First Edition/First Printing (full number line including the number 1 on the copyright page). Hard Cover. Crown 8vo 7½" x 5" [19cm x 12.7cm] approx. 177 pp. Cream boards with black titles to the spine and turquoise endpapers. Book and jacket are as new. Flat signed by the author without dedication to the title page. In these ten, beautifully moving short stories mostly written over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother's funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret.Told with Doyle's signature warmth, wit and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness, and the shifting of history underneath our feet. The dust jacket will be protected with a new inert archival Brodart sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional images. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS or Transglobal Express. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. ***Near fine in dark-red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. No bumps. Corners sharp. The front board has a small indentation. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. No creases. No tears. Spine tight. Pages clean. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which retains the original publisher's printed price of £13.99. Extremities of dustwrapper just slightly rubbed. Dustwrapper has some fading to the spine. No tears. No chips. ***223mm x 145mm. 233 pages. ***'A haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal where children are stolen away by demonic forces. The other is actual: the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s; a place that is also haunted by political enemies, family secrets, lethal intrigue. Claustrophobic but lyrically charged, breathtakingly sad but vibrant and unforgettable, "Reading in the Dark" is one of the finest books about growing up - in Ireland or anywhere - that has ever been written.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper, in nice collectable condition. ***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: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 360pp, illustrated. In 1587, a report claims that the first English settlers in America are in trouble. Later it emerges that they all perished on Roanoke Island off the North Carolina coast. Lee Miller alleges that the tragedy began at the court of Queen Elizabeth I.

1st ed. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), pages faintly toned as usual, minor edgewear, remainder mark (spot) bottom edge. 263 pp. First edition. Novel of India by the Australian-born writer and critic. Sanjay is a pavement child who from dire necessity learns to cajole, charm and outwit the tourists and turns his sex appeal, sartorial awareness and hard-won ability to speak English towards guiding film-crews on the 'poverty trail'. A brilliant celebration of the Indian film world and a most moving story of one young man's striving for fame and fortune.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. London. Jonathan Cape/Random House. 2005. First Edition. Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. Crown Octavo 7½" by 5" (190 mm x 126 mm) approx. 357 pp. Olive cloth boards with black decorative borders, white titles and vignette to the upper board. Decorative spine panel again with black design and vignette and white titles. A little rubbing to part of the black border on the upper board and also to the white letter 'e' in the title on the spine. Attractive decorative endpapers. Flat signed by the author without dedication to the title page. Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, George remains in hardworking obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events which made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages. With a mixture of detailed research and vivid imagination, Julian Barnes brings to life not just this long-forgotten case, but the inner lives of these two very different men. The boards will be protected with a new inert archival 100 micron cover which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional photographs. Postage price quoted outside the UK are for a book up to 1kg using UPS. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg and are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Jacket by Suzanne Dean (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 innovative acetate jacket, small tear to top of back spine, not price clipped (£16.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks almost unread. 310pp. 'C' follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who, as his name suggests, surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him. Born to the sound of one of the very earliest experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions, whose very air seems filled with cryptic and poetic signals of all kinds. When personal loss strikes him in his adolescence, this world takes on a darker and more morbid aspect. What follows is a stunning tour de force in which the eerily idyllic settings of pre war Europe give way to the exhilarating flightpaths of the frontline aeroplane radio operator, then the prison camps of Germany, the drug fuelled London of the roaring twenties and, finally, the ancient tombs of Egypt. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression with full number line. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top corners very slightly rubbed, not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 291pp. The book begins in November 1990 in Bogota, Columbia, when a group of gunmen ambush a car, kill the chauffeur and kidnap its two women passengers. The gunmen were working for Pablo Escobar, boss of the Medellin course cocaine cartel, who in the early nineties kidnapped the relatives of a number of Colombia politicians in order to pressurise the government to suspend the policy of extraditing drug traffickers to the USA. 'News of a Kidnapping' is at once a powerful, disturbing account of how Escobar undermined all Colombia's civil institutions by murder or bribery, and a moving exploration of the fate of Esobar's hostages, who were mostly middle aged or elderly women.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Jacket by Sylvain Meyer (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, slight lean , slight browning to text block. Not price clipped (£12.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 261pp. Based on real events in Epping Forest on the edge of London around 1840, The Quickening Maze centres on the first incarceration of the great nature poet John Clare. After years struggling with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, Clare finds himself in High Beach Private Asylum, an institution run on reformist principles which would later become known as occupational therapy. At the same time another poet, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and becomes entangled in the life and catastrophic schemes of the asylum's owner, the peculiar, charismatic Dr Matthew Allen. For John Clare, a man who had grown up steeped in the freedoms and exhilarations of nature, who thought 'the edge of the world was a day's walk away', a locked door is a kind of death. This intensely lyrical novel describes his vertiginous fall, through hallucinatory episodes of insanity and dissolving identity, towards his final madness. Historically accurate, but brilliantly imagined, the closed world of High Beach and its various inmates, the doctor, his lonely daughter in love with Tennyson, the brutish staff and John Clare himself are brought vividly to life. Outside the walls is Nature, and Clare's paradise, the birds and animals, the gypsies living in the forest; his dream of home, of redemption, of escape. Rapturous yet precise, exquisitely written, rich in character and detail, this is a remarkable and deeply affecting book, a visionary novel which contains a world.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Very minor edge wear to top of unlaminated jacket and spine, corners and front fold very slightly rubbed, not price clipped (£17.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 423pp. A collection of short stories by Edinburgh author Shena Mackay.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Jacket by Tim Hetherington (illustratore). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear and creasing to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, slight yellowing to page block. Price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 522pp. This extraordinary, magical first novel is the story of Clare a beautiful art student, and Henry a librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono Displacement Disorder, periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing. 'The Time Traveler's Wife' depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare's marriage and their passionate love for each other as the story unfolds from both points of view. Clare and Henry attempt to live normal lives, pursuing familiar goals, steady jobs, good friends, children of their own. All of this is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, and some wear and creasing to front jacket around cutout subtitle. Corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£20.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 614pp, decorated endpapers. The story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen, Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, who managed the Vichy government's dirty work, controlling its Jewish population. Born into an established, politically moderate family, Louis Darquier (de Pellepoix was a later affectation), proceeded from modest beginnings to dissemble his way to power, continually reinventing himself in conformity with an obsession with racial purity and the latent anti Semitism of the French Catholic Church. As Commissioner for Jewish Affairs he was responsible, with other men of Vichy, for the despatch of Jews to the death camps and for the confiscation of their property. Thousands of children went alone to the gas chambers. After the Second World War he decamped to Spain, never to be brought to justice. Early on in his career he married the alcoholic Myrtle Jones from Tasmania, equally practised in the arts of fantasy and deception, and together they had a child, Anne Darquier, whom they promptly abandoned to grow up in England under a mantle of silence. Her tragic story is woven through the narrative. In Carmen Callil's masterful, harrowing and sometimes darkly comic account, Darquier's ascent to power during the years leading up to the Second World War mirrors the rise of French anti Semitism. Epic, elegiac, the product of extraordinary research, this is a study in powerlessness, hatred and the role of remembrance.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condizione: Muy Bien. 1? Edición. Tapa blanda. Muy buen estado. Literatura inglesa. S.XX. Ensayo. Maternidad. Inglés.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. London. Jonathan Cape /Penguin Random House. 2023. First Edition/First Printing (full number line including the number 1 on the copyright page). Hard Cover. Demy 8vo (221x 142mm). approx. 334pp. Scarlet boards with black titles to the spine. Jacket photograph by Adaeze Okaro. Book is as new; jacket has a tiny knock at each upper corner and spine head but not visible in Brodart. Near fine. Flat signed by the author without dedication to the title page. Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club on the outskirts of London. Then everything changes. Yamaye meets Moose, who she falls deeply in love with, and who offers her the chance of freedom and escape. The dust jacket will be protected with a new inert archival Brodart sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional images. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS or Transglobal Express. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Superb photographs with brief descriptions, two guides to the gallery, a ticket for Damien Hirst 2003 and several postcards loosely laid in. Book with Damien Hirst cover as new, dust cover with minor shelf wear.

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: Near Fine. Jacket after Albrecht Durer (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top corners slightly bruised, very slight lean, not price clipped (£17.99), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy. 381pp. The facts about Pontius Pilate are very few. We don't know when he was born or when he died. We know nothing of his career before he became Govenor of Judea, and nothing of what happened to him after he was recalled by Tiberius. Some say he came from Rome, others from Spain or Germany. Everyone, from the evangelists to the writers of the medieval mystery plays, has his own Pilate, each symbolic of something, each a projection of his own ideas and anxieties. This extraordinary book is all about our Pilates real half real and invented. Some are familiar, some surprising. They have depths and contrasts that are unexpected. They do remarkable things. Among these surprises, perhaps, are the glimpses we get of a man actually walking on a marble floor in Caesarea, feeling his shoes pinch, clicking his fingers for a slave, while the clouds of lasting infamy gather over his head.