Will Self Intro (7 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 24 page booklet. 20 full-colour cards of which 10 have magic tricks on the reverse, and eight two-colour cards. Extraordinary story of Charles Dickens, conjuror. ISBN: 1870003128 Pages: 40 Very good indeed. Excellent condition.

Soft cover. Landscape 8vo. First edition. Original publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers with white lettering at spine. Copiously illustrated in black and white. ISBN: 1870003772 Tight and clean copy. Near fine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Hard cover, 8vo, in publisher's red cloth with black and orange illustration to front showing a distressed "secret agent" over his symbol of the triangle, encased in a circle of fire. Black slipcase has the same triangle and fire in silver. With 7 full page illustrations by Manchester, England graphic artist Ben Jones, using a combination of printmaking and collage. xxiv [2] 270pp. **CONDITION : Fine, as new, in Fine slipcase.** Polish-British author Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is well known for his tales of colonial and maritime misadventure: steamy jungles and riverboats serving a nation's trading quests. But "The Secret Agent" (1907) is set in the capital of his adopted England, in a London plagued by the fog of industrial-age coal-fires, and streets lit by gas lamps. Like Joyce's "Ulysses", this modernist crime novel follows the perspective of a handful of characters and their inner dialogues. At the heart of it is the "secret agent", Verloc, who is ordered by his foreign employer to provoke an act of terror in London; this to be carried out by the anarchist associates he has infiltrated, thus upending his usually sedentary, pamphlet-producing life, propelling him and his family into the world of actions, and consequences. The modern introduction by Will Self is best read after the novel, as it sheds light on Conrad's use of both language and plot. Ben Jones (illustrator). Book.…

SOFTCOVER. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Large Quarto size (4to). in colour printed stiff card covers with printed black cloth spine. Unpaginated, approx. 120pp with all front and rear thick card leaves of perforated stiff card 'Postcards' still intact - a complete copy . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread and unmarked copy. An excellent copy ] . __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DBBARTIST in the Keywords search box . . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. CONDITION: Slight scuffing to slipcase - see image. Book in very good condition.