Ship Theseus by J J Abrams Doug Dorst (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Editiion. appears all other inserts are present 22 in all. Book is fine slipcase is fine. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st printing. VG condition book with slipcase. Content is clean and bright throughout. Free from inscriptions or markings. Good slipcase with splits.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good copy without dust jacket but with original slip-case. See photos.

Hardcover. 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.

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.

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).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This book comes in a protective box, that has had the sticker that holds it together opened. It appears all of the corresponding literature (letters, postcrads, etc) that come with the book are present. It's exceptionally hard to know what damage to the book is part of the publication! There are some chips in the covers, and an ex library sticker but this appears to be part of the story of the book (it is intended to look likean old library book!) 1116.

Hard 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.

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.

Grey 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: 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.

Hardcover. 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.

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.

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".

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine in a Fine slipcase. New in shrinkwrap.

with original seal intact, pp. 456, 8vo, publisher's decorated cloth, housed in slipcase with gothic initial on upper panel and detailed book description on rear panel, slipcase with a few tiny marks, very good. An intriguing work, first published in New York by Winged Shoes Press in 1949 by the award-winning film-maker, Abrams, and the author of Alive in Necropolis, Dorst, in which a young woman finds a book by a fictional author, annotated with marginal notes by an unknown reader, to which she adds her own, the Calvino-esque layers building to a dramatic climax.