- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used





Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
AbeBooks seller since May 18, 2007
Association member: PBFA
Condition: Used - Fine
US$Â 261.31
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An extensive fifteen-volume collection of modern literary first editions in original dust wrappers, with two copies being first UK edition. In the publisher"s original cloth bindings, with the exception of "End of the Land" which is in the publisher"s original paper-covered boards.All copies are complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers, with the exception of Underworld by Don DeLillo, which is price-clipped.A contemporary collection of modern literary first editions, comprising award-winning novels and notable works of late twentieth and early twenty-first-century fiction, including translated literature, historical epics, and speculative reimaginings.All titles are first editions, though The Weekend and To the End of the Land represent first UK editions rather than the earliest worldwide printings.Compromising:Colm Toibin by Nora Webster (2014) First edition, first impression. Published by Viking. Blinding Light by Paul Theroux (2005) First edition, first impression. Published by Hamish Hamilton. Anil"s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje (2000). First edition, first impression, complete with the full number line. Published by Bloomsbury. Doctor Criminale by Malcolm Bradbury (1992) First edition. Published by Secker & Warburg. The Tress by Ali Shaw (2016). First edition, first impression, complete with the full number line. Published by Bloomsbury. Correspondents by Tim Murphy (2019) ). First edition, first impression, complete with the full number line. Published by Picador. The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant (2020) First edition. Published by Harper Voyager. The Weekend by Charlotte Wood (2019) First published in Australia in 2019 by Allen & Unwin, this is the first UK edition, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, first impression, complete with the full number line.English Monsters by James Scudamore (2020). First edition, first impression, complete with the full number line. Published by Jonathan Cape. Darke by Rick Gekoski (2017). First edition. Published by Canongate. Underworld by Don DeLillo (1997). First edition, first impression, complete with the full number line. Published by Picador. The dust wrapper of this copy is clipped. Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres (2004). First edition, first impression, complete with the full number line. Published by Secker & Warburg. Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh (2015). First edition, first impression, complete with the full number line. Published by John Murray. Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell (2020). First edition. Published by Sceptre. Paper covered boards. To the End of the Land by David Grossman, translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen (2010). First published in the United Stated by Alfred A. Knopf, this is the first UK edition published by Johnathan Cape. In the publisher"s original cloth bindings, with the exception of "End of the Land" which is in the publisher"s original paper-covered boards. Externally, lovely, with the slightest shelf wear to extremities. Dust wrappers, excellent. Dust wrapper of "Underworld," clipped. All other dust wrappers unclipped. Slight edge wear. More so to "Criminale", which has one or two minor chips and closed tears to extremities. One or two minor handling marks to wraps. Slight handling marks, soiling and age toning to "Darke," more apparent due to pale paper wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- 15 Vols A Collection of Modern First Editions
- Author
- Various
- Publisher
- Various 1992-2020, London
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Book Type
- book
- Binding
- Cloth
- Illustrator
- None
- Edition
- First edition.
- Item weight
- 20 kilograms
- Dimensions
- 9.5" by 6.5"
Rooke Books PBFA
Bath, United Kingdom
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Thompson Acquisitions Ltd
The Dispensary, 8 Cleveland Pl, 8 Cleveland Place East
Bath, United Kingdom BA1 5DJ
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