Hopeful Monsters by Mosley Nicholas, First Edition (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. first American edition Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Hopeful Monsters, winner of the Whitbread Award, is a tour de force of intellect and eros--one in which Albert Einstein taunts a lecture hall full of Nazis and Ludwig Wittgenstein is an awkward guest at an English garden party. It is a love story in which a young English physicist and a German-Jewish anthropologist pursue each other across landscapes that range from Hitler's Germany to Los Alamos on the eve of the atomic age. It is also a pyrotechnically accomplished novel of ideas in which communism, psychoanalytic theory, uncertainty, and relativity attain visceral emotional force and help us understand the cataclysms of the twentieth century. — A sweeping, comprehensive epic, Hopeful Monsters tells the story of the love affair between Max, an English student of physics and biology, and Eleanor, a German Jewess and political radical. Together and apart, Max and Eleanor participate in the great political and intellectual movements which shape the twentieth century, taking them from Cambridge and Berlin to the Spanish Civil War, Russia, the Sahara, and finally to Los Alamos to witness the first nuclear test. — Hopeful Monsters received Britain's prestigious Whitbread Award in 1990. — Praising Mosley's ability to distill complex modes of thought, the New York Times called Hopeful Monsters a "virtual encyclopedia of twentieth century thought, in fictional form" — First U.S. edition by Dalkey Archive ('90), most recent paperback by Vintage ('93). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1990 1st UK printing. Hardback in jacket. 24x16cm. 551 pages. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. TANNED PAGES. Jacket is not torn. Front flap is not price-clipped: £14.95. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A novel. Stated first American edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition; First Printing. An Uncorrected Proof in yellow printed wrappers. Dust soiling and creasing to the covers. Winner of the Whitbread Award. ; 550 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Elmwood Park: Dalkey Archive (1990). First American edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A clean, tight copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free shop. Defect-free.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Printing. 551 pages. Price-clipped dustjacket. First printing.

[iv]+550pp. Tall 8vo. Original cloth with dustwrapper. A very good copy. First edition.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Near fine, slightly cocked in wrappers. Whitbrad Book of the Year award, 1990.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Yellow wrappers. Fine.

NF/NF. First American Edition. 551 pp. Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year.