9780224017626 - Metroland von Barnes, Julian (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Grey boards with silver lettering to the spine. Square Binding, No inscriptions. Jacket is price clipped. 1st print. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Craig Dodd (Jacket design) (illustrator). First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, and in the first state - with the original publisher's printed price of £4.95 present. The author's first book, which won the 1981 Somerset Maugham Award. Jacket design by Craig Dodd. ***Near fine in light grey cloth-covered boards with silver titles to the spine. The silver is still nice and bright. Boards clean and unmarked. No bumps. Head and tail of spine just slightly creased. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges slightly marked. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a near fine typographic dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of £4.95 net - uncommon thus as most copies were clipped by the publisher and repriced at either £6.50 or £7.95. Unclipped copies are quite scarce. The dustwrapper is complete with hardly any wear. Just very light rubbing at the edges. There is also a light crease to the top corner of the front flap. Dustwrapper bright. ***205mm x 130mm. 176 pages. ***'Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. They cast a cynical eye over the various classes of fool: parents with their lives of spotless emptiness, Third Division (North) football teams, God, prefects and girls. ***From a marvellous, irrepressible vision of youth in "Metroland" (that strip of suburban dormitory served by the Metropolitan Line), Julian Barnes goes on to trace what adulthood holds in store. We see how Christopher arrives in Paris in time for les evenements of 1968, only to miss the whole thing; we see where sex leads, and watch the puzzled search for Moral Decisions; finally, we follow Toni's reactions as Christopher submits, not unironically, to the onset of happiness. It is an ingeniously wrought first novel - one to make us stop, puzzle, laugh and reconsider the state of being grown up.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A lovely copy of the first printing of the first published book by the Booker Prize-winning author Julian Barnes. The book won the 1981 Somerset Maugham Award. First impressions in unclipped dustwrappers are now hard to come by. A very nice copy for the collector. ***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.

, 176 pages First Edition/First Printing , colour slightly faded at tail of spine, previous owner has neatly written a translation to quote in blue biro on page 73, otherwise a clean copy, the book is in very good condition , dust-jacket in protective plastic sleeve, silver titles lightly rubbed, unclipped, in very good condition , grey paper covered boards, silver titles at spine 21 x 13 cm approx. Hardback ISBN: 224017624.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. First Impression ("First published 1980") of Barnes's first novel. Crown 8vo (197 x 125mm): 176pp. Publisher's steel-grey cloth, spine stamped in silver, grey end papers; black typographic dust jacket (priced-clipped) printed in metallic silver and white. Signed book plate of Otis Skinner Blodget (1930-2007), only child of actress and author Cornelia Otis Skinner, laid in. Virtually pristine and apparently unread, a very fine copy. Rees A1a. In 1980, after a prolonged apprenticeship (on staff at the Oxford English Dictionary, reviewing books for the Times Literary Supplement, and as literary editor of the New Statesman), Barnes published this short novel, a charming Bildungsroman centered on a young man growing up in London's northern suburbs (in 1956, Barnes's family moved from Leicester to Northwood, a suburb served by London Underground's Metropolitan line and thus the "Metroland" of his title), obsessed with France (where Barnes spent a year as an English teacher in Rennes), and his coming to terms with life. Winner of the Somerset Maugham award, given to an outstanding first novel. Filmed in 1997 with Christian Bale and Emily Watson. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Jonathan Cape, London. 1980. 176 pages. Signed by Julian Barnes on the title page. First Edition/First Printing. Craig Dodd designed silver lettered DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in bright silver lettered grey cloth. Bookplate present to the reverse of the front board. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards very lightly rubbed and worn. The adolescent Christopher and his soul mate Toni had sneered at the stifling ennui of Metroland, their cosy patch of suburbia on the Metropolitan line. They had longed for Life to begin - meaning Sex and Freedom - to travel and choose their own clothes. Then Chris, at thirty, starts to settle comfortably into bourgeois contentment himself. Luckily, Toni is still around to challenge such backsliding. Only the author of Flaubert's Parrot could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of us call "growing up" and others "selling out." E-130; 7.9 X 5.2 X 1.0 inches; 176 pages.