Isbn: 9780241119198 - Perfume: the Story of a Murderer (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Acceptable Jacket. The jacket is permanently stuck to the book using self adhesive film. English language. Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Cult novel, translated by John E Woods. 186 pages. First UK edition, first printing. Black boards, price-clipped unfaded dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to jacket edges, age toning to page edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1986. Age-yellowing to pages and slight rubbing to edges of price-clipped dust-jacket, now protected using removable clear wrap, otherwise in very good condition. Next day dispatch by Royal Mail in sturdy, recyclable packaging. 1000's of satisfied customers! Please contact us with any enquiries. …

8vo Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. 186p. Stated first Great Britain edition. Name penned on page opposite of half title, but warmly toned pages are otherwise unmarked. Binding is tight with secure hinges. Black boards are pointed with gilt lettering on spine. Jacket is unclipped and glossy with minor shelf wear.…

8vo, 186pp. A very good paperback copy with a crease in the back cover. Proof Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition in English. First impression of the first edition in English. Translated from the German by John E. Woods. Originally published in German as "Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Morders" by Diogenes Verlag AG in Zurich in 1985 ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are beautifully clean, with just a small scuff at the top of the front board. Tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. The page block edges are tanned as usual but with no marks or foxing. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions or annotations. The endpapers are illustrated with maps of Paris. No creases or tears. Pages clean but paper stock tanned as usual (cheap paper stock used by the publisher). ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £9.95 net. The dustwrapper is virtually flawless. No creases, chips or tears. Just some light fading to the titles on the spine which are yellow rather than the original bright red. Dustwrapper bright. ***240mm x158mm. 186 pages. ***'This is the story of one Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born under a fishmonger's bloody slab in eighteenth-century Paris. For his brutal birth signals the beginning of one of the strangest lives ever imagined, and a career of very violent genius. ***As a human being, Grenouille is handicapped from the start, and at the same time outstandingly gifted. His mother is executed for murder. Wet nurses refuse to nurse him. In the orphanage other boys shun him. But as he grows up in isolation two facts begin to dawn on him. One is that he is blessed with an extraordinarily sharp sense of smell. The other - the cause of his rejection - is that he has no smell of his own. Then a chance meeting with an ageing parfumier on the Pont au Change, during which he exactly replicates a perfume for the old man, sets Grenouille on the road to fame. And on the bloody part of murder. ***Part fable, part surreal fantasy, part novel of suspense, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is the work of a brilliant talent. The originality of the story, the dynamo of the writing, the supremely sensual grasp of one man's secret world, make it a novel worthy of comparison with the great European masters.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the first edition in English, complete in its original dustwrapper, in very nice bright collectable condition. The British edition is far less common than its American counterpart, and copies in this near fine condition are very uncommon. ***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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth lettered gilt at the spine Pages: 186 Neat name on half title with small bookplate opposite o/w very good indeed in very good indeed d/w. Not price-clipped.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Nice copy of this hardcover with dust jacket. Binding is tight. Dust jacket clean. Covers are clean and crisp. Lightly age-toned pages appear unmarked. Ships FAST! Bringing good books to happy readers since 2002.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. In fine/fine condition. Except for owners name and date to title page. Not price clipped d/j. Without the name it would be highly collectible, unmarked condition, less so now. The usual toning to paper edges form poor quality paper. 188pp.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: The contents deeply age-toned; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9½" x 6¼" (0.8 kg); pp 186; Translated by John E. Woods; Includes: Maps to the lining papers; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #201130 ||. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is scuffed, and edges are creased and nicked. Board corners and spine ends are bumped. Spine is cocked and page block and page edges are tanned. Pages are otherwise clear, boards are clean and binding is sound. LW. Used.…

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Book: slightest bit of darkening to edges of the textblock. Jaket: Shelf wear at spine extremes and corners of cover. Has been wrapped in protective plastuc.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st UK edition, 8vo, 186pp, translated John E Woods; paper age-toned as usual but that aside VG+ Copy in VG+ DJ Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition with the exception of the ink inside and a small scratch to the back of dust jacket (see all pics), the rest of the pages are clean and tight.