Isbn: 9780960142828 - confessions d'un barjo (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good-. New edition first published June 1978. Card covers are a little age-toned and creased, mark on front upper right corner from remnants of previous seller's sticker, corners bumped; binding is tight; pages are clean, fore edges toned.; 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches; 171 pages.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First trade paperback edition and first. New edition and first edition thus - first trade paperback edition with the new introduction. The book was first published in hardback in 1975, then as a limited paperback edition. This edition is the first trade paperback edition, published in June 1978, with the full number-string sequence including the No. 1: 5 4 3 2 1 r on the publisher's copyright page. ***Six-page introduction by Paul Williams, written New York City February 1975. Colour cover art by Michael Patrick Cronan. ***Very good in colour-printed and illustrated wrappers. Edges of wrappers slightly rubbed and discoloured. Red titles to spine faded. White wrappers slightly discoloured. Spine tight. No reading creases to the spine. Owner's name in blue fibre-tip pen to top of half-title page: 'John Marley' 79'. Please note that the previous owner has added an 'artistic' sketch in the same blue fibre-tip pen to the end of chapter two, at the bottom of page 13 [see scan]. A very few light fox-marks to the fore edge of text-block. Top edge of text- block lightly discoloured. Interior pages clean. No tears. Colours to front and rear wrapper bright. ***216mm x 140mm. x prelim pages including introduction plus 171 pages. ***'Philip K. Dick is the Hugo-Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle and dozens of other fine works. He is widely acclaimed as one of our best science fiction writers, which means one of our best writers. "Confessions of a Crap Artist" is the first non-science-fiction novel by Philip K. Dick that's ever been published. A hardcover collectors' edition was published in 1975 and is now out of print; copies are changing hands for $25 or more. The present edition is the first time this extraordinary novel has been available to the general public.' ***'A funny, horribly accurate portrait of life in California in the 1950's' [Rolling Stone] Quote and review quote from blurb to back and front wrapper respectively. ***Of interest to collectors of Philip K. Dick and vintage collectable paperback first editions. This trade first paperback edition is hard to find in the UK. ***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. Michael Patrick Cronan [Cover art] (illustrator).…