harvill secker an imprint of vintage penguin random house london (3 resultados)

First Edition, first impression, with printing sequence line '135791086442'. Publisher's black boards with light blue gilt lettering to spine and beige endpapers. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. [6], 260, [6]. A book in Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket which is not price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition, with full number-string sequence on the printer's page including the no "1":1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. ***This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. Translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken. ***Near fine in scarlet cloth-covered boards with white titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps, creases or tears to the cloth. Despite the large size of the book, there is no reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine, with no inscriptions apart from the author's signature. Matching red front and rear endpapers. Pages clean. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £20.00. Extremities of dustwrapper just slightly rubbed and creased, mainly to the head and tail of the spine, and at the bottom of the back panel near the spine (please see scans). No tears. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***240mm x 160mm. 666 pages plus a page of Acknowledgements, a page of Credits, and a two-page publisher's advertisement at the back of the book. ***'One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage. Journalist Jostein is out drinking for the night, while his wife, Turid, a nurse at a psychiatric care unit, is on a nightshift when one of her patients escapes. Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears blazing in the sky. It brings with it a mysterious sense of foreboding. Strange things start to happen as nine lives come together under the star. Hundreds of crabs amass on the road as Arne drives at night; Jostein receives a call about a death metal band found brutally murdered in a Satanic ritual; Kathrine conducts a funeral service for a man she met at the airport - but is he actually dead? "The Morning Star" is about life in all its mundanity and drama, the strangeness that permeates our world and the darkness in us all. Karl Ove Knausgaard's astonishing new novel, his first after the "My Struggle" cycle, goes to the utmost limits of freedom and chaos, to what happens when forces beyond our comprehension are unleashed and the realms of the living and the dead collide.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the first UK edition of Knausgaard's novel "The Morning Star", in its original dustwrapper, this copy signed by the author. Due to the size and bulk of the book it is prone to bumping and creasing. Uncommon in this near fine condition, especially signed. ***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. ***Please note that this is a large heavy book and will incur extra shipping charges if sold outside the UK.***. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition, with '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2' on the printer's page. Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. The book was first published in English translation in the USA in 2019 by Pantheon Books, NY, and originally in Japan in 1994 as "Hisoyaka" by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo. ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The titles are still nice and bright. Boards clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No tears or creases, and the paper is still white. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a near fine strikingly illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £12.99. The dustwrapper is complete with no chips or tears. The top of the spine of the dustwrapper is just slightly creased. No fading, even to the red colour to the spine. Dustwrapper bright. ***224 mm x 147 mm. 274 pages plus a one-page note About the Author at the back of the book. ***"The Memory Police" is a beautiful, haunting and provocative dystopia about the power of memory and the trauma of loss from one of Japan's greatest writers.' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***'"The Memory Police" is a 1994 science fiction novel by Y?ko Ogawa. The novel, dream-like and melancholy in tone in a manner influenced by modernist writer Franz Kafka, takes place on an island with a setting reminiscent of that in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. An English translation by Stephen Snyder was published by Pantheon Books and Harvill Secker in 2019. "The Memory Police" was named a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature, as well as for the 2020 International Booker Prize. It was also named a finalist for the 2020 World Fantasy Award. In an article naming it one of the best books of the Summer of 2019, Time wrote, "Ogawa's fable echoes the themes of George Orwell's 1984, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude, but it has a voice and power all its own." The Chicago Tribune called it: "A masterful work of speculative fiction [.] An unforgettable literary thriller full of atmospheric horror." The New York Times compared it to the novels of Samuel Beckett and Kobo Abe, saying "Ogawa's ruminant style captures the alienation of being alive as the world's ecosystems, ice sheets, languages, animal species and possible futures vanish more quickly than any one mind can apprehend." [Wiki] ***A true first printing of the first UK edition, in its original dustwrapper, in beautiful collectable condition. Even reprints of this award-winning novel seem to be quite elusive, and first impressions are very hard to track down now. ***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.