Published by Phoenix House 1997 (Uncorrected Proof Copy), 1997
Seller: Jenny Hurst, Folkestone, United Kingdom
PB/Good condsmall crease on one corner.Draws on dark and paranoid images of the city, from the Renaissance, through Dickens and jack the Ripper, to the Krays and the decay of Thatcher's London.
Published by London: Goldmark of Uppingham / Granta Books, 2001., 2001
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
SIGNED hardcover first edition - Limited, signed edition. Sinclair at his best - or worst. A unique mixture of fiction, history, and autobiography, set in the Welsh borderlands. As one reviewer commented "There are plot lines galore: murder, suicides, mental asylums, a good deal of bookselling and buying (Sinclair's old trade), readings, writings. There are cameos from the past: David Jones, Father Ignatius, Henry and Thomas Vaughan, and Francis Kilvert are presences through much of the book, and Allen Ginsberg and Bruce Chatwin also pop up. A number of Sinclair's friends and acquaintances also have roles, from Michael Moorcock to the usual cast of odd characters that follow him from book to book, who live, like him, 'on the ledge of the peripheral'. The Jeremy Thorpe affair plays a role. And, of course, there's Walter Savage Landor, towering (vaguely) behind it all." Number 86 of a limited edition of 250 numbered clothbound copies SIGNED by both the author and illustrator on a special preliminary page. 345 pp. plus a 19 pg section of illustrated "files recovered from Kaporal's Caravan". Fine in a burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a matching cloth slipcase.
Publication Date: 2001
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Granta Books London. 2001. First edition, limited to 250 copies SIGNED by Sinclair and McKean, this being number 116. This limited signed edition was produced using the first edition, first issue sheets by Goldmark of Uppingham and is cased in claret cloth gilt. Set in our area (Hay-on-Wye) and illustrated by McKean. A lovely copy in matching slip-case.