Blake vargas (3 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Paginated 429-650, illustrated. [br bx].

Original Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First and only printing of the true first edition - published in Cambridge in 1981. ***Near fine in colour illustrated card covers. The covers are nice and clean with just light browning at the edges. No obvious faults - just very light rubbing at the edges and a light crease at the bottom corner of the front cover. No reading lean to the binding and just the slightest vertical reading crease to the spine. Spine tight. Page block edges quite clean - just some foxing and browning to the top edge. Covers bright. The spine, unusually, remains completely unfaded. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions or annotations. None of the usual internal foxing. Pages clean. No creases or tears. ***295 pages, including adverts and notes on contributors, and one unnumbered page advert for Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge at the back of the book. 208mm x 144mm. ***A very hard to find first printing of this early issue Granta - whilst not as scarce as the first three issues, Granta 4 is becoming very uncommon now, especially in such well-preserved condition. ***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.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The designer makes stunning use of Hokusai's Mount Fuji print for the cover of Granta 4. This is a beautifully preserved first edition of the fourth issue of the reborn Granta, champion of new writing, which grew to be one of the best known, most widely read, richest in talented contributors and longest enduring of a notoriously ephemeral species, the literary magazine. Includes contributions from Guy Davenport (Fifty-Seven Views of Fujiyama), Martin Amis, Brigid Brophy, Blake Morrison, Raymond Carver and Mario Vargas Llosa. The celebrated cover retains its original gloss and stiffness; the colours haven't faded and there are no tears, chips, scratches or bumps. A few indentations are visible on the front panel when the light falls on it from certain angles. The text block is perfectly square and tightly bound (remarkably so for a soft-covered book of this thickness (300 pages !), weight and age - over forty years !). All edges of the text block are spotless. Internally the pages are clean and unmarked apart from a previous resale price written in pencil on the first inside page. See five photos of this magazine and do ask for more if that would help.…