Shadow Authority by Waller Robert (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dennis Bailey (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition/printing. Book is in Very Good condition - FFE has top right corner cut off, otherwise Fine condition. Dust jacket with wraparound art in Very Good or better condition. ".a Near Future Satire set in a 1980 Britain, where the National Publishing authority (whose internal structure resembles that of the BBC) controls what may be read." - JC, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 3rd edition/internet.

1st edn. 8vo. Original yellow lettered black cloth (light spotting on page edges - otherwise bright VG), dustwrapper (lightly worn at edges - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 223 (front free endpaper creased; pastedowns and endpapers and some pages spotted; previous owner's ink inscription on front endpaper).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A novel about authoritarianism and censorship which imagines what might happen upon the formation of a National Publishing Authority. Complete jacket, just a little tanned at the spine. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 56879.

First edition. Octavo. 224 pages. Although the novel is about something called the National Publishing Authority it is in fact a satire on the B.B.C. where the author worked as a producer. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Robert with best wishes from Robert! August 1956. With thanks for appreciation and criticism of the mss."Edges lightly spotted. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper, designed by Dennis Bailey, a little rubbed at edges.

First Edition, First printing. Inscribed by author on front endpaper to fellow journalist and broadcaster Bernard Levin. FINE BOOK IN NEAR-FINE, PRICE-CLIPPED DUST JACKET WITH SLIGHT BROWNING TO SPINE.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Signed. First Edition. First edition; SIGNED COPY; signed by the author on the title page with inscription to a friend on the ffep; Good in Good unclipped (13s. 6d. net) dust jacket; dust jacket has light chipping to extrems, general fading to panels; no markings to the text. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. 223 pages. A novel from this British writer. A very good copy with an attractive bookplate on the front pastedown in a very good dust jacket with some minor soiling and a faint stain to the base of the spine. Signed and inscribed by Waller on the front free endpaper. Signed.