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Publicado por Granta / Penguin Books, 1986
ISBN 10: 0140085955ISBN 13: 9780140085952
Librería: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First impression of the first edition. ***Illustrated with black and white photographs.***Very good in colour illustrated card wrappers. Edges of wrappers slightly rubbed and creased. Small ink contemporaneous ownership stamp 'please return to Paul Smith' on title-page. Pages clean. No tears. Spine tight. No reading crease to spine. Covers bright. ***254 pages plus two-page publisher's advert and note on contributors and advert on rear pastedown. 210 mm x 144 mm. ***Contributors: Richard Ford, Primo Levi et al. ***Published in Summer 1986 - "The companion volume to 'Dirty Realism' (Granta 8): unillusioned, spare fiction of the belly-side of American life: with Richard Ford, Ellen Gilchrist, Louise Erdrich, Jayne Anne Phillips, and others. Plus: John Updike, Adam Mars-Jones, and Primo Levi." [Taken from the Granta website] ***An early issue of a Granta original. ***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.
Publicado por Granta / Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1983
ISBN 10: 0140068805ISBN 13: 9780140068801
Librería: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
Original Wraps. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket, as Issued. Don McCullin [Photographs] Ilustrador. First Edition. First printing of the true first edition. ***Illustrated with six pages of Don McCullin black and white photographs. ***Very good in colour illustrated card wrappers. Edges of wrappers slightly rubbed, discoloured and creased. Wrappers slightly yellowed and rubbed. Spine slightly faded. No inscriptions. Pages clean. No tears. Spine tight. Light reading crease to spine. ***250 pages plus four unnumbered pages of adverts and advert on rear pastedown. 210 mm x 144 mm. ***Contents: T. Coraghessan Boyle: Greasy Lake; David Harsent: Pekfos; James Wolcott: New York; Ronald Sukenick: Poland; Patrick Marnham: The Border; Manlio Argueta: A Day In The Life In El Salvador; Joan Jara: September 11, 1973; José Donoso: The Country House; Sheila Rowbotham: Lance; Russell Hoban: Pan Lives and The Boat Train; Graham Swift: A Short History of Coronation Ale; Guilermo Cabrera Infante: The Bird of Paradise Lost; Frederic Prokosch: Niagara; John Berger: Boris; Gabriel García Márquez: The Solitude Of Latin America; Mario Vargas Llosa : The Story of a Massacre. ***Published in Autumn 1983 - "Boris: a story of love and pain and self-destruction. Also a chronicle of an obsession with political and historical implications that extend far beyond its seemingly straightforward, spartan narrative." [Current publisher's synopsis] ***An early issue of Granta - No. 9 was the first to go out of print after Issues 1-4 as early as 1984. ***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.
Publicado por Granta, King's College, Cambridge University, 1982
Librería: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
Original Wraps. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the first edition. ***Near fine in colour illustrated card wrappers. Extremities of wrappers very slightly rubbed. No inscriptions. Pages clean. No tears. Spine tight. No reading crease to spine or fading. Front and rear wrappers and spine bright. ***307 pages including notes on contributors plus eight unnumbered pages of adverts to rear and advert on rear pastedown. 210 mm x 144 mm. ***Contents: Don Bloch: The Modern Common Wind; Susan Sontag: Elias Canetti; Russell Hoban: Footplacers, London Transport Owls, Wincer Boise; Jonathan Schell: Nuclear Arms and the Fate of the Earth and other contributions by T. Coraghessan Boyle, Lisa St Aubin de Teran, John L'Heureux, Ted Mooney, Jorge Ibarguengoitia and Leonard Michaels. ***Published in Spring 1982, with the following publisher's synopsis: "The theme of this issue is the habitability of the earth, and it is in this context, not in the context of the direct slaughter of hundreds of millions of people by the local effects of nuclear weapons, that the question of human survival arises." ***A hard to find first printing early issue Granta - whilst not as scarce as the first three issues, becoming uncommon now. ***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.
Publicado por Granta, King's College, Cambridge University, 1981
Librería: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
Original Wraps. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the first edition. ***Contents: Guy Davenport: Fifty-Seven Views of Fujiyama; Martin Amis: Let Me Count the Times; Walter Abish: Why Write; Mario Vargas Llosa: Sexuality and Realism; Brigid Brophy: The Economics of Self-Censorship; Raymond Carver: Vitamins; Beyond the Crisis: Arguments for the Future of Publishing etc. ***Very good in colour illustrated card wrappers. Wrappers slightly browned. Lower corner of front cover lightly creased. Corners of wrappers very slightly rubbed. No tears. No reading crease to spine. Spine tight. No inscriptions. Pages clean. ***295 pages including adverts and notes on contributors to rear plus one unnumbered page advert for Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge to rear. 208 mm x 144 mm. ***A hard to find first printing early issue Granta - whilst not as scarce as the first three issues, becoming uncommon now. ***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.
Publicado por Granta, King's College, Cambridge University Library, 1980
Librería: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
Original Wraps. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket, as Issued. John Blanche [Cover design] Ilustrador. First Edition. First printing of the true first edition of the third Granta (New Series) - complete with the John Blanche illustration with OUP advert on the reverse inserted at page 108 - the illustration repeated on the front cover. ***Very good in mustard-yellow black printed thin card covers, with the matt surface very slightly rubbed and discoloured. Slight off-setting from a price label which appears to have been removed from the front wrapper. Edges of wrappers slightly rubbed. No tears. Light reading creases to the spine. Slight spine lean but spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No creases or tears. ***216 pages including notes on contributors to rear. 210 mm x 146 mm. ******Contents: Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children (first part); Angela Carter: Cousins; Desmond Hogan: Southern Birds; Alan Sillitoe: A Scream of Toys; Emma Tennant: Alice fell; Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker; J.K. Klavans: God, He Was Good. ***With a section titled "A Symposium on the British Novel, with contributions by: Lorna Sage, Chris Bigsby, Frederick Bowers, James Gindin and Christine Brooke-Rose. ***The first and only printing of Granta 3 (New Series) containing the two chapters "The Perforated Sheet" (p. 17-32) and "Mercurochrome" (p. 32-46) which are the earliest publication of parts of Salman Rushdie's novel "Midnight's Children" to appear in any form, along with Russell Hoban's "Riddley Walker". Copies of the first three issues of Granta are very hard to come by now, especially in 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.
Publicado por Granta, 1980
Librería: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Granta, King's College, Cambridge University in 1980. Original Wraps. The BOOK is in near FINE condition with a little creasing at spine tips and a hint of toning to the text block. No Jacket as issued. Free from inscriptions and erasures. This copy is lacking the one page OUP insert at page 108. Illustrated with full-page black and white drawing cover design by John Blanche. The Contents: Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children (first part); Angela Carter: Cousins; Desmond Hogan: Southern Birds; Alan Sillitoe: A Scream of Toys; Emma Tennant: Alice fell; Russell Hoban: Ridley Walker; J.K. Klavans: God, He Was Good. With a section titled 'A Symposium on the British Novel, with contributions by: Lorna Sage, Chris Bigsby, Frederick Bowers, James Gindin and Christine Brooke-Rose. A very hard to find early issue Granta - containing the first publication of the first part of Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children'. This copy has been Signed by Salman Rushdie, Alan Sillitoe and Chris Bigsby at their entries. Scarce to find with such attributes. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Author(s).
Publicado por Granta, King's College, Cambridge University, 1980
Librería: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
Original Wraps. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First and only printing of the true first edition. ***Very good in black printed scarlet card covers. The covers are clean, with some rubbing to the extremities, mainly to the edges of the spine. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. The sun-sensitive red to the spine is slightly faded. No reading creases to the spine. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No creases or tears. ***224 pages plus an unnumbered page on the inside back cover continuing notes on contributors. 202mm x 142mm. ***Contents: Richard Godden: Two Poems; Jerome Klinkowitz & Thomas Remington: Science Fiction to Superfiction; D. A. Miller: Language of Detective Fiction: Fiction of Detective Language; Peter Robinson: Four Poems; Robert Coover: Lucky Pierre and the Coldwater Flat; David Black: Nostalgia; M.J. Fitzgerald: Bachelor Life; Walter Abish: Sweet Truth; David Katz: The Wife; Norman Bryson: City of Dis: The Fiction of Don DeLillo; Robert Boyers: The Weightless Characters of William Styron; Heide Ziegler: Interview - John Barth; John Barth: Letters from LETTERS; Don Guttenplan: On the Death of Elizabeth Bishop; Tony Tanner: A Preface to A. H.; George Steiner: The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H. (a fantasy of Hitler alive in the Amazon); Jeremy Lane: B-ABEL. ***The scarce first and only printing of Granta 2, in bright undamaged collectable condition. Granta 2 is the most prone to damage of the first three Grantas - most copies are found cracked open as the binding is poorly glued. To find a virtually unread copy such as this is highly unusual. ***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.