The Comfort Of Strangers - 1st Edition/1st Printing by McEwan, Ian - 1981

Jonathan Cape, 1981. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. 3nd printing. Cloth with dustjacket, 21 cm, 134 pp. Cond.: goed / good. ISBN: 0224019317. .

London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. First edition, first printing hard cover, with unclipped dust jacket, both in very good condition. General shelf and handling wear including light tanning to DJ, notably the spine, minor creasing to DJ edges, and tanning and light foxing to pageblock, pastedowns, endpapers and occasionally within. Spine cocked. Boards are in fine condition, pages tightly bound, and content unmarked. CN. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used.

Jonathan Cape, 1981. 1st. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing hardback, 1981, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket slightly faded to spine (now protected); boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; light tanning to page-ends but text bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

London : J. Cape, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 134p. ; 21cm. Subjects: Holidays ; Fiction.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. 1st printing. Leading edge coffee splash marked.

London: Jonathan Cape. This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in Publisher's brown coloured cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Very Good + Dust-Jacket,that has no chips or tears to the outer edges of the wrapper.Not price clipped (£5.50 showing to the inner flap) The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and with no leaning or rolling to spine.There are no previous owner's names or inscriptions present.The book has some spotting/age toning to the page edges and top edge of the book.Certainly a decent copy of the Author's fourth book.The dust-jacket comes well protected in a removable cover sleeve.8vo 134pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [1981] . Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1981.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. Brown boards with gilt spine lettering. Book in excellent condition, dust jacket with a light crease to front flap, about fine otherwise. Signed by Ian McEwan on the title page.

Harpercollins, 1991. First edition, as stated, first printing . Hardcover. Fine/near fine. r. 446 pp. This is a rare first edition copy signed by both Oliver North and William Novak. North's inscription, "Margo and Sam, all the best," appears in blue ink on the half title page with North's signature and the date "3 Nov 91" and Novak's signature in black ink. Dust jacket slightly wrinkled at top of spine. Free USPS tracking with every US order. Ships from MA.

New York: Continuum, 2006. 8vo size trade paperback with black and white photo illustrated cover; 414 pages From back: "Cinema, which first arrived in Japan in 1896 with the Kinetoscope prototype, came at the very time that Japan was transforming its economic base and society into that of a major international power. The first cinema, the Asakusa Denikikan, was opened in Tokyo in 1903 and within 13 years 300 cinemas had sprung up throughout the country... (The author) focuses on the historical development of Japanese film, illustrated by a series of typical Japanese film posters. She details an industry and an art form shaped by the competing and merging forces of traditional culture and of economic and technological innovation." Edgewear, creases to bottom and bottom and top corners of front cover, soil on bottom and light soil to outside pages. We note pencilled underlining on at least 29 pages and pencilled marginalia on at least three pages and four creased page corners. Quotes… Read More

New York, NY, U. S. A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. New York, NY, U. S. A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. Fine in Near Fine jacket Signed by Author A Gideon Oliver Mystery, SIGNED on title pg. Edgar Award winner best mystery npc 197pp. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition

1990 (INSCRIBED BY THE EDITORS) "Best wishes to Frances McLaughlin fellow member of the writers guild" Rosalie Davis Mathilde Ruggles (Collette) Hurrah for My New Free Country covers a wide span of events, from the settlement of Kansas in the late 1860s (which included Indian wars and the near-extermination of the buffalo), to the Oklahoma land rush, to the peaceful growth of the area around Chandler, Oklahoma, in the early 1900s." Book: clean and unmarked - pages are crisp/white DJ: minimal shelfwear - colors are vibrant

New York: Private Printing. Fine with no dust jacket. 1976. Limited Signed Edition. Softcover. The artist's abstract and quite varied series of 43 drawings of flags, all printed monochrome on the recto of pages. Kingsley Parker has been exhibiting and represented by galleries since the mid-1970s and has a work in the collection of the Museum Of Modern Art in New York, NY. The artist is quite active with new works. Signed in ink "K. Parker/1976 ©" in the front matter where Parker explains his motivation for drawing the series of abstract flags. Copy 158 of a limited edition of 600, numbered in the colophon. Approximately 44 pages, unpaginated. Printed on fine, machine-made paper in brown wraps. The title and a flag drawing are framed on the front cover. In absolutely clean, Fine condition. ; Drawings; Square 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 44 pages; Signed by Artist .

New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2003. Z2 - A Science Fiction Book Club Omnibus Edition hardcover book SIGNED by the Charlaine Harris in as new condition in as new dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead. 8.5"x5.75", 612 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club (BCE/BOMC).

RARE. Collectible: 1916. Signed by the author. Cambridge MA: University Press. Very Good. Hardcover. Light soil to green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped title, author's name, and design. A bright solid, book - 27 pages; Inside covers are sunned. Pages clean and bright. Frontspiece. "View from Mrs. Thaxter's Garden Gate. 29 illustrations. Small book: 7" x 5"

Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Flat signed and dated by author on FFEP and Inscribed by author to a friend on half-title page. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine except for author's inscription and signature. Spine straight and tight. Jacket shows light rubbing, light chipping at spine head, and light reading wear to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xi + 150 pages. illus. A reflection of the relationships of two artists -- Grant Wood (1891-1942) and Marvin Cone (1891-1965) -- with the community of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A loving biography by a woman who knew them both. Laid-in are two letters to the editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette; one from Woods' sister, and another from a friend of Woods and the author.

True FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated). "Flap Jacket Press trade paperback edition / First Printing July 2007" on copyright page. This small run printing precedes the hardback edition. NEW. Cover Clean, no wear, no tears, no spine creases, protected in Brodart cover. Text Clean, no marks. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. Books are Carefully Packed in a Box and Shipped Daily with Delivery Confirmation from Dry, Smoke-Free shop. Complete Satisfaction Guaranteed. B103

SIGNED, FIRST UK LIMITED EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated, complete number line to 1) Harvill Secker, London, 2010. NEW, Unread. Author's Signature, no inscription, on a bookplate attached to the first chapter page. Note on bookplate reads "This edition of I Curse the River of Time, signed by the author, is limited to 1,000 copies". Dust Jacket Bright in Brodart protective cover, Clean, no wear, no tears, not price clipped (£12.99). Text Clean, no marks. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. Not book club. Fast shipping from Dry, Smoke-Free home. Email Confirmation with Tracking Number. International ships Air Mail.