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Hardcover. 8vo. Slip case. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. This first edition copy has grey boards with debossed titling and front board detailing. Spine is uncreased with bold titling and straight edges. Purposely worn looking sticker at the foot of spine. Text block is square. Binding is firm. 456p. Interior has many loose materials through out the pages that are apart of the content. Pages purposefully made to look as though ink notations are through out the margins. Box slip is clean and intact with straight edge and softly rubbed corners. Paper tab on fore edge of slipcase is torn on one side but remains attached.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Editiion. appears all other inserts are present 22 in all. Book is fine slipcase is fine. Book.
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Published by Canongate Books Ltd, 2013
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. 1st printing. VG condition book with slipcase. Content is clean and bright throughout. Free from inscriptions or markings. Good slipcase with splits.
Condition: New. J.J. Abrams and acclaimed novelist Doug Dorst create a reading experience like no other in this dazzling novel of love and mystery Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 185 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1076. 2013. Main. Hardback. Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 'Ship of Thesus by V.M Straka'. Stated First Edition. Designed to appear as a book from 1949 with artificial toning, foxing, marginal notes and stamps. Light grey cloth boards with black, white and yellow titling and decoration at front panel and spine. Boards good with light shelf wear and edge wear. Corners and spine foot lightly bumped. Scuffing to back panel. Spine square. Binding sound. Slipcase very good with shelf wear and edge wear; corners bumped, seal broken. Pages fine. Text unmarked. This book has all its pieces; each piece is marked with the page where it belongs.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in. Includes all 23 book inserts. The seal on the slipcase is broken, else a Very Good copy. 'The chronicle of two readers finding each other, and their deadly struggle with forces beyond their understanding -- all within the margins of a book conceived by Star Wars director J.J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst.' ~Publisher.
Published by Mulholland Books, 2013
Language: English
Seller: Peter Lenz Bookseller, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Near Fine hardcover, as issued w/out dj, in a Near Fine slipcase. "First Edition October 2013" stated to copyright statement located at lower rear pastedown and # row ending in #2. Includes all of the inserts/ephemera laid in to book (postcards, letters, news clippings). Scarce. A nice copy - clean text, tight binding, and a clean and bright covers.
Published by Canongate Publishing, 2013
Language: English
Seller: Bookworm, Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good copy without dust jacket but with original slip-case. See photos.
Published by Canongate Books Ltd., 2013
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
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Add to basketCondition: Good. 2013. No edition remarks. 456 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial slipcase. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Many facsimile inserts and fake marginalia to imitate use. Pages remain bright and clean. Binding remains firm. Boards with minimal shelf wear. Slipcase has light edge wear with minor marking to panels.
Published by Canongate Books, 2013
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd printing. VG condition book with slipcase. Content is clean and bright throughout. Free from inscriptions or markings. Good slipcase with little wear.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Slipcase. First Edition. Mulholland Books, 2013; first edition, with full number line; 456pp. With all 22 original inserts and original slipcase, though seal has been broken; bottom corners of case bumped, else very good. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; bottom corners lightly bumped; all titling remains bright and bold. Faux library label to spine, as issued. Interior is free of previous owner markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota; due to size/weight of this book additional shipping charges may apply.
Published by Mulholland Books, New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 0316201642 ISBN 13: 9780316201643
Language: English
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean carefully read copy. J. J. Abrams and acclaimed novelist Doug Dorst create a reading experience like no other in this dazzling novel of love and mystery. In his first-ever idea for a novel, Abrams conceived of and developed a multi-layered literary puzzle of love and adventure. At its core, we have a book of mysterious provenance. In the margins, another tale unfolds: hand-scribbled notes, questions, and confrontations between two readers. Between the pages, online, and in the real world, you will find evidence of their interaction, ephemera that brings this tale vividly to life. Abrams turned to PENHemingway Award- and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated novelist Doug Dorst, author of the acclaimed novel Alive in Necropolis (Riverhead, 2008) and story collection The Surf Guru (Riverhead, 2010), to write this novel. Together, Abrams' vision and Dorst's expert craftsmanship redefine the novel. All interactive items, 22 total that were with the book when it was published/released with all present and accounted for. Book is housed in an illustrated slipcase which does have some light rubbing wear. Gift quality conditiion. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. This copy has been removed from the illustrated slipcase examined and/or read carefully with no damage by previous owner at least to my naked eye. Book.
Published by Mulholland Books/Little Brown: Boston, 2013
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 9.5 x 6.25", AS NEW IN ORIGINAL, UNOPENED SHRINKWRAP.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 2013
ISBN 10: 0316201642 ISBN 13: 9780316201643
Language: English
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Limited Edition. Octavo, 472 pages; In Very Good Condition with Very Good Slipcase. G+; spine gray buckram, with black lettering; includes black slipcase, sticker of ship torn slightly; very mild shelf wear to tail corners and spine of book; includes loose inserts; pages clean; shelved below Front Counter or Hardcover Sci-Fi. 1372694. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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 Canongate, Edinburgh, 2013
ISBN 10: 0857864777 ISBN 13: 9780857864772
Language: English
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: In Slipcase. First UK. 8vo. original grey boards gilt (a trifle rubbed, lacks spine label) in slipcase priced £20 (a trifle rubbed, seal broken; pp. xiv, 456, with loosely inserted ephemera, as issued. A near fine copy.
Published by Ambo / Anthos uitgevers, 2014. xiv, 458 p. Met 21 ingelegde reproducties van documenten. Vertaling Robbert-Jan Henkes. 1e druk van de vertaling. Verzegeling verbroken (maar nog geheel aanwezig)., 2014
ISBN 10: 9041419632 ISBN 13: 9789041419637
Language: Dutch
Seller: Antiquariaat Hortus Conclusus, Den Haag, Netherlands
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Add to basketHardcover in cassette. Imitatie bibliotheekband (als uitgegeven), compleet met toebehoren (briefjes, kaarten, krantenknipsels.). Cassette iets gedeukt, verder zeer goed. Please see description or ask for photos.
Published by Rizzoli Lizard; 1° edizione (19 novembre 2014), 2014
ISBN 10: 8817068691 ISBN 13: 9788817068697
Language: Italian
Seller: Rarewaves USA, OSWEGO, IL, U.S.A.
Hardback. Condition: New.
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Publication Date: 2013
Seller: A Book Preserve/ John A. Crider, Bookseller, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
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 Canongate Books, London, 1948
ISBN 10: 0857864777 ISBN 13: 9780857864772
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Add to basketGrey hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (More images available on request). VG : in very good condition with slipcase. 240mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). xiv, 456pp. The twenty-two inserts of ephemera designed to accompany this edition are all present.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine+. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Basically a new copy. Unknown printing. Purchaser agrees to keep the book should the shrinkwrap be removed.
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.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. I opened this extraordinary book to make certain it was a first edition; what I did not realise was it is a truly fascinating and unique book imagined by J.J. Abrams and written by Doug Dorst. It is not only a straightforward work of fiction. It is doubly so! It is made to look as if it was published in 1949, and among other mysteries it is also faked up as a library book - from a fictitious library of course! Thus there are many deceptions going on. One is the annotations within the text; remarks and clarifications, as if handwritten. And then, most unusually, there are many inserts loosely laid in throughout the book. Postcards, letters, bills even a compass. The text paper is faked to look old. There are library stamps and some slight foxing, all of it faked! This book can be read as a novel. It can also be read as an annot=ated work in progress. J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst have an obvious fascination with the written word, and of the history of a world of books. A stunning and very original production.
Published by Mulholland Books/ Little,Brown Company, New York NY, 2013
Seller: Longs Peak Book Company, Loveland, CO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The best-looking book I've ever seen. . . . The book is so perfectly realized that it's easy to fall under its spell. . . . If you want to write a romantic mystery meta-novel in which two bibliophiles investigate the conspiracy around an enigmatic Eastern European author, you couldn't choose a better team.-Joshua Rothan, New Yorker. This copy is in very good condition as a hardback written in 1949 by V.M. Straka and heavily annotated by two students who comment on everything within and outside the pages of the book. It is in a slipcase and includes note sheets and various other pieces of correspondence and paraphernalia. The book will b e carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.
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.
Published by Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2015, 2015
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
Abrams, J. J. / Dorst, Doug. V. M. Straka, Das Schiff des Theseus. Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Tobias Schnettler und Bert Schröder. Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2015, 1. Auflage, 522pp., very good decorated hardcover in light cardboard slipcase, I find 22 items laid in. Elaborate fake library book with numerous items laid in: postcards, notes, napkin with drawing, etc. ISBN 9783462047264.
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".
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Add to basketxvi, 522 (2) Seiten, (2) Bll. (vakat), (22) lose Beilagen, farbiggeprägter illustrierter OLnbd. mit 2 montierten Papierrückenschildchen (1 fingierte Bibliothekssignatur, 1 Sigel), schwarzgeprägter OKart.-Schuber, 23,5 x 15,5 cm. Experimenteller Roman auf vier Ebenen (Autor, Übersetzer, zwei Leser); zugrunde liegt als philosophisches Motiv das Theseus-Paradoxon ("Schiff des Theseus"). - Die Angaben zu Verfasser, Verlag und Erscheinungsdatum auf dem Titelblatt sind fiktiv (V.M. Straka; Winged Shoes Press; 1949). - Mit allen 22 Beilagen (Postkarten, Briefe, Zeitungsschnipsel, Eötvös-Scheibe, Serviette, Photographien usw.) an den von Verlagsseite her bestimmten Stellen im Buch. - "Für die technische Realisation brauchten wir Fachleute, die mit Handlettering sowie mit kompliziertem Satz Erfahrung hatten. Schon bei den ersten übersetzten Seiten fingen wir an, Satzproben zu machen, um zu sehen, ob das von uns entwickelte Konzept, mehrere Ebenen zu verknüpfen, auch klar und übersichtlich für die Graphikerin ist. Diese Abstimmung, sowohl was den Satz als auch die Farbgebung angeht, dauerte bis zum Druck über ein Jahr. [.] Bei den Vorbereitungen wurde uns schnell klar, dass wir nicht nur eine ganz enge Abstimmung zwischen den einzelnen Dienstleistern benötigten, sondern auch, dass wir nur eine einzige Auflage drucken würden um die Kosten einigermaßen überschaubar zu halten. Denn die Produktionszeiten waren extrem lang, nicht nur bedingt durch die aufwändigen Vorgaben, sondern auch deshalb, weil alle Beilagen (immerhin 22 an der Zahl!) an bestimmten festgelegten Stellen einzulegen waren. Das übernimmt natürlich keine Maschine, das kann nur manuell gemacht werden" (Herstellungsleiterin Monika König; Börsenblatt, 23.10.2015). - "Als hätten Franz Kafka und Karl May nach einer durchzechten Nacht noch eben gemeinsam einen Abenteuerroman heruntergeschrieben" (Nicolas Freund; Süddeutsche Zeitung; 7.10.2015 [Printausgabe]). - Das Siegel einseitig gebrochen; sonst tadelloses Exemplar.
Published by Mulholland Books, New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 0316201642 ISBN 13: 9780316201643
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine in a Fine slipcase. New in shrinkwrap.
Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if youâre not satisfied with purchase please return item for full refund. Ships via media mail.
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