paperback. Condition: Fair.
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Published by New Directions, c.1996,, 1996
ISBN 10: 0811213668 ISBN 13: 9780811213660
Language: English
Seller: Harry Alter, Sylva, NC, U.S.A.
paperback, Condition: Good, New Directions, c.1996, 13th.trade paperbk.prtg., 237pp., a little mustiness, ow VG $.
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Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.
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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition; no remainder marks. It does have some cover shelfwear. Inside pages are clean. ; 5.4 X 0.7 X 8 inches; 272 pages.
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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Condition: New.
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Published by Vintage Classics 05 N, 2020
ISBN 10: 1784876755 ISBN 13: 9781784876753
Language: English
Seller: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Rings of Saturn This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Published by New Directions Publishing Corpor, 1996
ISBN 10: 0811213382 ISBN 13: 9780811213387
Language: English
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good.
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hardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Published by The Harvill Press, 1993, 1993
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Near fine stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. Always fine work by this author.
Condition: New.
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Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
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Published by The Harvill Press, London, 1999
ISBN 10: 1860466249 ISBN 13: 9781860466243
Language: English
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first UK edition with full number-string sequence including the no. "1": 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. This paperback edition was published simultaneously with a scarcer hardback edition. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout the text. ***Very good in monochrome photo-illustrated card covers with integral folding French flaps, with silver titles to the spine and front cover. There are some light creases to the edges, mainly on the back cover, but the covers are clean and only lightly marked. No major creases or tears, and no reading creases to the spine. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. There is a light abrasion to the bottom of the fore-edge of the page block, and some creasing and marking to the bottom corner of the last few pages (please see scans). No inscriptions. Apart from the aforementioned creasing and marking to the last few pages, the interior pages are clean and bright. No tears. ***210mm x150mm. 263 pages. ***Contents: I. Beyle, or Love is a Madness Most Discreet, II. All'estero, III. Dr K. Takes the Waters at Riva, IV. Il ritorno in patria. ***'"Vertigo" is the book in which W. G. Sebald first employed the spell-binding blend of personal narrative, investigation, fiction, history and ravel writing that has since won him international acclaim for "The Emigrants" and "The Rings of Saturn". ***In the first of four linked narratives following the young Stendhal (at that time still Marie Henri Beyle) as he revisits the battlefields of Napoleon's Italian Campaign, Sebald announces his theme: the vertiginous unreliability of memory. In the second and third narratives, the frescoes of Pisanello, the imprisonment of Casanova in Venice, the trials of Franz Kafka in Italy, and the narrator's own uneasy journeyings, develop the theme. In the final movement, motifs sketched in the earlier parts of the book are synthesised into one mesmerising autobiographical quest as Sebald returns to his childhood roots in southern Germany to discover the dizzying otherness of his own past. ***Line by line we are drawn into a symphonic labyrinth from which escape seems impossible, until Sebald introduces his final theme: the delight the creative process takes in blending, transforming and refashioning past experience into a new and consoling whole.' (Quote taken from the front flap) ***First impression of the first UK edition of W. G. Sebald's "Vertigo", published as a paperback original (simultaneously with a scarcer hardback edition). A good reading copy of the original printing of this Sebald classic. ***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.
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine first edition in fine dust jacket. Previous owner's name on half title page.
Published by Harvill Press, London, 1996
ISBN 10: 1860463495 ISBN 13: 9781860463495
Language: English
Seller: Frances Wetherell, Cambridge, United Kingdom
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). 1st Edition. First paperback printing. Slight crease to covers otherwise a firm, clean copy.
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Published by The Harvill Press, London, 1998
ISBN 10: 1860463991 ISBN 13: 9781860463990
Language: English
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. Third impression of the first UK paperback edition with number-string sequence as follows: 3 5 7 9 8 6 4. The paperback edition was published simultaneously with a scarcer hardback edition. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. ***Very good in illustrated French-style card self-wraps, with black titles to the spine and front cover. Edges of covers just very slightly creased, mainly at the corners. Just the lightest of reading creases to the spine, which has none of the usual fading. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Pages clean and bright. Would be near fine, except for a few top corner tips of the pages slightly creased. Spine tight. Covers bright. ***210mm x150mm. 296 pages. ***'"The Rings of Saturn" follows the trail of destruction that human beings have wrought on themselves, and yet it is an unremittingly fascinating blend fiction, autobiography, and history. Its narratives are unfolded with a melancholy ever the domain of Saturn and, like its rings, created from the fragments of shattered worlds.' ***'"The Emigrants" was one of the great books of the last few years and now "The Rings of Saturn" is a similar and as strange a triumph.' - Michael Ondaatje (Quote and review quote taken from the front flap and back cover respectively]. ***A third impression of the first UK paperback edition of W. G. Sebald's "The Rings of Saturn", published simultaneously with a scarce hardback edition, in nice collectable condition - printed on heavy high-quality paper. A nice reading copy in the original format. ***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.
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Published by Harvill Press, London, 1998
Seller: Frances Wetherell, Cambridge, United Kingdom
First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. 1st Edition. Large format paperback with French fold wrappers. Third printing with number string 3579864. Shallow corner creasing to a few pages otherwise a firm, clean copy.
Published by The Harvill Press, Loldon, 1996
ISBN 10: 186046128X ISBN 13: 9781860461286
Language: English
Seller: Attic Books, Cheltenham, GLOS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First English Paperback. - 216 mm. Trade paperback. Illustrated. B&W photographs. Pp. 237. Mild wear and rubbing to cover. Overall, VGC.
Published by The Harvill Press, London, 1998
ISBN 10: 1860463983 ISBN 13: 9781860463983
Language: English
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. Second impression of the scarce first UK hardback edition with the number-string sequence as follows: 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. The hardback edition was published simultaneously with a paperback edition, but had a much smaller print-run, and only ran to three impressions. ***Please note that this is an ex-library copy, and the front free endpaper and half-title pages have been removed.*** Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. ***A good copy in brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners of front board also creased. Page block edges clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally, the book is also very good, with clean and unmarked pages except for the following library marks to the interior as follows: front free endpaper and half-title pages removed, and title page glued at the gutter, Suffolk County Libraries & Heritage withdrawn library stamp to the title page. Surprisingly, there are no other obvious library interventions, and very little creasing to the pages. ***In a very good original illustrated dustwrapper, with a front cover illustration from a painting by J. A. M. Whistler 'Harmony in Blue and Silver, Trouville'. The dustwrapper is complete, but the library has for some reason price-clipped the front flap. The dustwrapper remains clean, with just slight rubbing and creasing at the extremities. The spine of the dustwrapper is faded, also affecting the edges of the panels near the spine. The dustwrapper is however well preserved for an ex-library copy. ***216mm x155mm. 296 pages. ***'"The Rings of Saturn" records a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, the author's home for more than twenty years; it is also an exploration of England's pastoral and imperial past. The narrator extends the horizons of Suffolk to embrace the exploitation in the Congo witnessed by Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement, the succession to the Dragon throne in Chinese history, the lives and writings of Thomas Browne, Jorge Luis Borges, Chateaubriand, silkworm cultivation, Ireland's troubles, and the "ethnic cleansing" carried out fifty years ago in Bosnia. ***"The Rings of Saturn" follows the trails of destruction human beings have wrought on themselves, and yet it is an unremittingly fascinating blend of fiction, autobiography, and history. Its narratives are unfolded with a melancholy ever the domain of Saturn and, like its rings, created from the fragments of shattered worlds.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***An ex-library copy of the second impression of the hardcover issue of the first UK edition of W. G. Sebald's 'The Rings of Saturn'. This hardback issue was issued simultaneously with the more commonly found wrappers issue, and was probably intended mainly for library distribution (as per this copy). Copies of the first three impressions in hardcover in any condition are now scarce. ***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.
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Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Edition. 2000 New Directions hard cover - 1st edition first printing - brand new excellent unread collectible - author's 1st book - enjoy.
Published by The Harvill Press, London, 1999
ISBN 10: 1860466230 ISBN 13: 9781860466236
Language: German
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition. A clean ex-library copy of the first impression of the first UK edition, with full number-string sequence including the no. "1": 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. This hardcover edition was published simultaneously with a more commonly found paperback edition. The hardcover copies were aimed mainly at public lending libraries, and so are much harder to find now. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout the text. ***Although ex-library, this is a very clean near fine copy in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright, having been protected by the dustwrapper. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of the spine just very slightly creased. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean. The page block has sagged slightly at the spine due to the heavy-gauge paper used. Internally, the book is also near fine, with just the following library marks: 'Marlborough College Memorial Library' stamps crossed out in ink on the front pastedown and free endpaper, an ink code at the top of the front free endpaper, and a barcode on the rear pastedown - no other internal marks and hardly any signs of handling. The pages are clean and unmarked. No creasing or tears - the book feels largely unread. No foxing. Spine tight with no reading lean. ***In a near fine monochrome illustrated dustwrapper, which is not price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's price of £16.99 on the front flap. The dustwrapper is complete, with just very rubbing to the edges. No creases, chips or tears. No fading. The dustwrapper has been very well preserved by the original library jacket - now replaced with a thin (removable) protective sleeve. ***217mm x155mm. 263 pages. ***Contents: I. Beyle, or Love is a Madness Most Discreet, II. All'estero, III. Dr K. Takes the Waters at Riva, IV. Il ritorno in patria. ***'"Vertigo" is the book in which W. G. Sebald first employed the spell-binding blend of personal narrative, investigation, fiction, history and ravel writing that has since won him international acclaim for "The Emigrants" and "The Rings of Saturn". ***In the first of four linked narratives following the young Stendhal (at that time still Marie Henri Beyle) as he revisits the battlefields of Napoleon's Italian Campaign, Sebald announces his theme: the vertiginous unreliability of memory. In the second and third narratives, the frescoes of Pisanello, the imprisonment of Casanova in Venice, the trials of Franz Kafka in Italy, and the narrator's own uneasy journeyings, develop the theme. In the final movement, motifs sketched in the earlier parts of the book are synthesised into one mesmerising autobiographical quest as Sebald returns to his childhood roots in southern Germany to discover the dizzying otherness of his own past. ***Line by line we are drawn into a symphonic labyrinth from which escape seems impossible, until Sebald introduces his final theme: the delight the creative process takes in blending, transforming and refashioning past experience into a new and consoling whole.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A really clean ex-library copy of the first impression of the first UK edition of W. G. Sebald's "Vertigo", published in hardcover - far fewer copies were printed in this format compared with the simultaneous paperback edition. ***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.
Published by Harvill Press, London, 1999
ISBN 10: 1860466230 ISBN 13: 9781860466236
Language: German
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket edges are creased and nicked, with small chips at the spine head. Board spine head is bumped, and page block head is lightly foxed. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.
Published by Harvill Press, 1998, 1998
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st edn 3rd printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered maroon cloth (near Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 296, with b&w illus (previous owner's light pencil inscription on front endpaper).
Published by Harvill Press, London, 1999
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First U.K. Edition. First Impression, cloth issue. Octavo (21.75cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [vi],[2],3-263,[1]pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced £16.99). Sharp copy of Sebald's second novel, and the first book in his Rings of Saturn trilogy, simultaneously issued in cloth and wrappers.
London: Harvill Press. 1999. 8vo. Original black boards with publishers device and title in gilt along spine; illustrated grey dust cover with photograph of eye and on rear board photograph of author; [8], 3-263, [3]; fine copy. First edition, rare hardcover. Merging together the stories of Stendhal's unrequited love, the trials of Franz Kafka in Italy, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation and the narrators own personal journeying (amoungst other tales), W.G. Sebald's multifaceted masperpiece explores the unreliability of memory, a theme persistent throughout his unique work body. As Susan Sontag wrote, "Where has one heard in English a voice of such confidence and precision, so direct in its expression of feeling, yet so respectfully devoted to 'the real'?".
London: The Harvill Press. 1996. 8vo. Original blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and publishers device on spine; Blue illustrated dust wrapper; [10], 3-237, [3]; minimal bruising to top and bottom of dust wrapper spine; otherwise fine copy. First edition. "But I have never been able to bring myself to sell anything, except perhaps, at one point, my soul". The Emigrants is a powerful series of narratives which explore the consequence of trauma and displacement as experienced by four Jewish emigres in the 20th century. Like the majority of Sebald's work, the use of stark black and white photographs throughout, which give the impression that one is reminscing over a past life, are both complimentary to the narrative and yet also disturbing interruptions to confessional recollection, marking many of the ways Sebald challeges conventional plot structure. "The Emigrants is about the power of memory", as writes the Amsterdam newspaper Volkskrant, "The way in whch German history has wrought havoc with the human capacity to remember has never before been remember has never before been recorded with such force". In his final interview in September 2001 that was later printed in The Guardian, Sebald is quoted saying: "Memory, even if you repress it, will come back at you and it will shape your life. Without memories there wouldn't be any writing: the specific weight an image or phrase needs to get across to the reader can only come from things rememberedâ"not from yesterday but from a long time ago".