A Game of Thrones [Book One of a Song of Ice and Fire] by George R.R. Martin - 2011

[i-x]+390 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with gilt "SL" and tilt title to cover and author's name in black rectangles on spine in original first state, black over blue, jacket. (Pastore page 273) First edition. 10,000 copies of the black on blue dust jacket were printed. It is a warm human story, a story of people everyone knows, of a community anyone could live in. There is none of the deliberate out of scale characterization that makes one feel -- at times -- that he is mainly a satirist. There is the inescapable sense of familiarity in characters, in situations, in background, that made Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith and Dodsworth live as household words. It is a story of marriage, the focus on Judge Timberlane and the lovely, somewhat unstable young wife, Jinny, who alternately stimulated his passion, his worship, his jealousy. But it is too the story of a community, of various types of people, patterns of marriage -- a story of an average… Read More

The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd. London.,1927. First Readers Library Film Edition. Small 8vo.6.7 x 4.2 inches. First edition in English.Page edges browned as usual but generally a very good copy in publishers burgundy cloth binding. Front board and spine lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt. Spine has oxidised a bit resulting in the gilt being a bit dulled. Original full colour first state dustwrapper, without any mention of this title in the listings. Wrapper shows characters from the 1927 Danish silent film directed by A. W Sandberg. Some chipping top corners but overall a very good example. The film was relased in England by Gaumont.:

Popular Library, 1960. Softcover. Fine.

First UK edition, first printing, hardcover with dust jacket in archival cover. London, 1936. Volume is Near Fine: trace wear to edges, no interior markings of any kind, binding is tight, pages are bright. Dust jacket is Poor: has some large chips and shows considerable wear but it is present. Hammond B19 and Currey p.521. Please see images of the book you will receive. Notes: This is the film treatment of his short story of the same name.

Blue and black boards with gold writing on spine; author's signature embossed in gold on front board. Bottom of book spine slightly rumpled; slight shelf on top and bottom of dust jacket spine.Price of $20.00 on front dust jacket flap; book has overall tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition.Pocket Books First Edition, First Printing as indicated by complete number line ending in "1" on copyright page. Special hardcover gift edition of the book made famous by the movie starring Tom Hanks. Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.

[i-x]+390 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with gilt "SL" and tilt title to cover and author's name in black rectangles on spine in original first state, black over blue, jacket. (Pastore page 273) First edition. 10,000 copies of the black on blue dust jacket were printed. It is a warm human story, a story of people everyone knows, of a community anyone could live in. There is none of the deliberate out of scale characterization that makes one feel -- at times -- that he is mainly a satirist. There is the inescapable sense of familiarity in characters, in situations, in background, that made Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith and Dodsworth live as household words. It is a story of marriage, the focus on Judge Timberlane and the lovely, somewhat unstable young wife, Jinny, who alternately stimulated his passion, his worship, his jealousy. But it is too the story of a community, of various types of people, patterns of marriage -- a story of an average… Read More

The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd. London.,1927. First Readers Library Film Edition. Small 8vo.6.7 x 4.2 inches. First edition in English.Page edges browned as usual but generally a very good copy in publishers burgundy cloth binding. Front board and spine lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt. Spine has oxidised a bit resulting in the gilt being a bit dulled. Original full colour first state dustwrapper, without any mention of this title in the listings. Wrapper shows characters from the 1927 Danish silent film directed by A. W Sandberg. Some chipping top corners but overall a very good example. The film was relased in England by Gaumont.:

Popular Library, 1960. Softcover. Fine.

First UK edition, first printing, hardcover with dust jacket in archival cover. London, 1936. Volume is Near Fine: trace wear to edges, no interior markings of any kind, binding is tight, pages are bright. Dust jacket is Poor: has some large chips and shows considerable wear but it is present. Hammond B19 and Currey p.521. Please see images of the book you will receive. Notes: This is the film treatment of his short story of the same name.

Blue and black boards with gold writing on spine; author's signature embossed in gold on front board. Bottom of book spine slightly rumpled; slight shelf on top and bottom of dust jacket spine.Price of $20.00 on front dust jacket flap; book has overall tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition.Pocket Books First Edition, First Printing as indicated by complete number line ending in "1" on copyright page. Special hardcover gift edition of the book made famous by the movie starring Tom Hanks. Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.