THE NOISE OF TIME (First edition, first impression)

Julian Barnes

ISBN 10: 1910702609 / ISBN 13: 9781910702604

Published by Jonathan Cape (an imprint of Vintage Publishing), 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1V 2SA, 2016

About this Item

First impression of the true first edition with the full number-string sequence: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with bright-red titles to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. Binding square with no reading lean. Spine tight. Internally also near fine, with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Black front and rear endpapers. Pages clean. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's printed price of £14.99. Dustwrapper complete with no creases, chips or tears. No fading even to the red titles on the spine. Dustwrapper bright. ***236mm x 161mm. 184 pages including a two-page author's note at the back of the book. ***'In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'A literary decathlete' - New York Times.' (Review quote taken from the back panel of the dustwrapper) *** First impression of the true first edition, in its original dustwrapper, in beautiful near fine collectable condition. The book production is particularly nice, with high quality thick boards. ***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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE NOISE OF TIME (First edition, first impression)
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape (an imprint of Vintage Publishing), 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1V 2SA
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910702609
• ISBN 13: 9781910702604
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

** The Sunday Times Number One bestseller **

A Daily Telegraph / Financial Times / Guardian / Sunday Times / The Times / New Statesman / Observer Book of the Year

'BARNES'S MASTERPIECE.' - OBSERVER

In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return.

So begins Julian Barnes’s first novel since his Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending. A story about the collision of Art and Power, about human compromise, human cowardice and human courage, it is the work of a true master.

About the Author

Julian Barnes is the author of fourteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and four works of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing to Be Frightened Of. He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime contribution to literature in 2011, and the Légion d'Honneur in 2017.