Published by Mulholland Books, New York, NY, USA, 2013
ISBN 10: 0316201642 ISBN 13: 9780316201643
Seller: Bay Used Books, Sudbury, ON, Canada
hardcover with slipcase. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition. Minor wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Slipcase in Very good condition with minor wear to edges and corners. Pictures available upon request. dw.
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing: a 2013 production made to look like facsimile of 1949 ex-lib. Hard cover 8vo in gray cloth w/white, gold and black dec and titles. Fine and unmarked; No DJ, as issued. 456pp; lavishly annotated throughout which, together with numerous ephemera LAID-IN, help solve the case. Quite a production. Sorry, no slipcase. Book.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Gray cloth hardcover with modernist illustration and titles on cover and spine in black illustrated slip-case. The seal is broken, but intact. Book is intentionally faux-aged and camouflaged as an ex-library book published in 1949 and heavily annotated with margin notes in the hands two fictitious readers (which forms a separate mystery overlaid on the narrative). This comedic homage to travel literature and pseudo-academic prose will not fail to delight. Contains 24 fictitious "laid-in" items between the pages: post-cards, news clippings, epistles, loose notes, business cards. From the publisher's statement: "The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey. The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him. The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they're willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears." Ships fast with tracking.
Published by Winged Shoes Pfess (2013), New York, 2013
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Facsimile edition. 456p octavoe, illustrated. a very fine copy in gray decorated cloth enclosed in publisher's slipcase. A facsimile of the 1949 printing. Laid in is numerous pieces of ephemera and annotated throughout in facsimile.
Published by Winged Shores Press, 1949 [Mulholland Books, 2013], 2013
Seller: A Book Preserve, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. New. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Gray cloth hardcover with modernist illustration and titles on cover and spine in black illustrated slip-case. Faux-aged and camouflaged as an ex-library book published in 1949 and heavily annotated with margin notes in the hands two fictitious readers (which forms a separate mystery overlaid on the narrative). This comedic homage to travel literature and pseudo-academic prose will not fail to delight. Contains 24 fictitious "laid-in" items between the pages: post-cards, news clippings, epistles, loose notes, business cards. From the publisher's statement: "The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey. The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him. The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they're willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears." Ships fast with tracking.
Published by Little Brown, Boston, 2013
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket - As Published. First Edition. Bound in gray buckram, stamped in black, yellow and white. This book has everything, notes throughout, postcards, letters, faux marginalia and library stamps throughout; obit laid in. A matching slipcase. "the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey". 456 pp. The book must be seen to be believed. A publishing masterwork. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
On the "title page": New York, Winged Shoes Press, 1949 (the real publisher is listed on the slipcase). -- A novel with "original" printing plus printed marginalia, in various colors, icons, "library" markings, as well as various pieces of faked ephemera loosely laid in. Quite an exercise in bookish creativity. -- Hardcover, with slipcase explaining just what this is. Condition: fine, with very good minus slipcase (the sealing label is torn off).
Published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2015
Seller: Antiquariat an der Linie 3, Darmstadt, Germany
Gr. 8° geb. Pappeinband. Gebundener Pappeinband in Original-Schuber, 24 x 17 cm, SU mit minimalen Lagerspuren, das Siegel geöffnet, der Band selbst in annähernd neuwertigem Zustand, alle Beilagen sind enthalten, damit absolut vollständig. NEIN, dieses Buch ist nicht vollgekritzelt und auch kein Leihexemplar , wie der Stempel auf dem Vorsatz verkündet, und auch die Zettel, Karten, Belege, Notizen etc., die darin liegen, wurden nicht vergessen. Sie sind Teil des raffinierten Gesamtkunstwerks. Verlagstext: Eine junge Studentin findet in der Bibliothek ein Buch, in das ein anderer Student Hunderte von Randbemerkungen gekritzelt hat, offenbar im Bemühen, der wahren Identität des unter Pseudonym schreibenden Autors V. M. Straka auf die Spur zu kommen. Die junge Frau ist fasziniert und ergänzt die Notizen mit eigenen Mutmaßungen. Zwischen den beiden Studenten Jen und Eric entspinnt sich eine lebhafte Unterhaltung, die allein auf den Seiten des Romans »Das Schiff des Theseus« stattfindet. Gemeinsam machen sie sich auf die Suche nach dem mysteriösen Autor V. M. Straka. Ein unbekannter Übersetzer hat den Roman herausgegeben und ihn mit teilweise verwirrenden Fußnoten versehen. Doch die beiden finden heraus, dass diese Fußnoten einen geheimen Code ergeben, der ihnen Informationen liefert, die der Straka-Forschung bisher völlig unbekannt waren. Was wie ein Spiel beginnt, wird im Laufe der Zeit bitterer Ernst, denn jemand scheint Interesse daran zu haben, dass die Identität des Autors nicht gelüftet wird. Jen und Eric geraten in gefährliche Verstrickungen, die sie fast das Leben kosten. Ein hochraffiniert komponierter Roman, der zeigt, was ein Buch anrichten kann. In der Literatur und im Leben. Stichworte: Schiff des Theseus, Straka, Buchwesen, Fantasy, Abenteuer 544 S., zahlr. Beilagen Deutsch 1150g.
Published by Köln : Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2015
ISBN 10: 3462047264 ISBN 13: 9783462047264
Seller: TschaunersWelt, Waldkirch, Germany
First Edition
Pp. Condition: Gut. 1. Aufl. XVI, 522 S. ; 25 cm + 22 Beil. Der Pappschuber weist wenige leichte Gebrauchsspuren auf, das Buch befindet sich in einem wirklich sehr guten Zustand ISBN: 9783462047264 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200.
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Published by Winged Shoes Press, New York, 1949
Seller: White Raven Books, Ypsilanti, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1949 on the title page, actual publication date October 2013 inside the back cover; Gray cloth, black titles, cover illustration, & many inserts (proabably all); A very good copy; 456 pages. Size: 6.25"x9.25".
Published by Köln Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2015
ISBN 10: 3462047264 ISBN 13: 9783462047264
Seller: Antiquariat Weinek, Salzburg, Austria
Gorß-Oktav XVI, 522 Seiten Alle 22 Beilagen vorhanden. Im Original-Schuber. Schönes Exemplar. Sprache: deutsch.