9780385149334 - Mockingbird von Tevis, Walter S. (22 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Clean pages. Binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Clean pages. Binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition/First Printing. Very solid book with owner bookplate and gift inscription to pastedown, and a small brown spot to fore edge. Jacket is not bad but has these faults. one crease to rear flap, tiny chip with associated tear and crease bottom front panel, and maybe a little moisture showing to back side that needs to be searched for. Solid and tight.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Uncorrected proof. A very nice copy with very little wear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good to Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday and Company, Inc, Garden City, 1980. 247 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In a world where the human population has suffered devastating losses, a handful of survivors cling to what passes for life in a post-apocalyptic, dying landscape. People wander, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss, through a barren landscape with no children, no art, and where reading is forbidden. From this bleak existence, a tragic love triangle springs forth. Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, runs the world, but his only wish is to die. Paul and Mary Lou are a man and a woman whose passion for each other sparks a jealousy in Spofforthâ"and provides the only hope for the future of human beings on Earth.; 8.2 X 5.6 X 0.9 inches; 247 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1980. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated dust jacket with original $10.00 price intact; dark blue-green boards with black cloth spine and silver lettering; [viii],247pp. Jacket lightly shelfworn. Binding is sound. Former owner's inscription on the frontispiece. Dystopian novel from the author of The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Queen's Gambit, and The Color of Money. Set in a bleak 25th century Manhattan run by dilapidated androids for a near-extinct, illiterate, and infertile human population. Reviewing a 1999 re-issue, editor Pat Holt write that the book often feels like a combination of 1984 and Brave New World, with a dash of the movie Escape from New York thrown in.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, Stated.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition stated, quarter bound in black cloth & green boards with silver spine lettering. 8vo size,247pp. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket. Book is clean and tight. Minor rubbing to the spine tips. Front fly leaf is stamped "POD". Perhaps a remainder mark? Contents are otherwise fine. VG dust jacket has tiny frays to the spine tips. Top left corner of front panel is rubbed and has a mild crease. Scarce book.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1980. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated dust jacket with original $10.00 price intact; dark blue-green boards with black cloth spine and silver lettering; U48 gutter code to p. 247; [viii],247pp. Jacket lightly shelfworn, with some creasing at bottom of rear panel, bumping at head of spine, toning to verso, and a couple small tape remnants at top and bottom of rear flap. Boards lightly rubbed along bottom edge. Spine a bit cocked, and nudged at head and tail. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Dystopian novel from the author of The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Queen's Gambit, and The Color of Money. Set in a bleak 25th century Manhattan run by dilapidated androids for a near-extinct, illiterate, and infertile human population. Reviewing a 1999 re-issue, editor Pat Holt write that "the book often feels like a combination of 1984 and Brave New World, with a dash of the movie Escape from New York thrown in.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. A beautiful, crisp, clean hardcover in fine condition. Dust jacket in fine condition and in protective mylar cover. We are a brick-and-mortar store and sell our own inventory.

Zustand: Good. 4to. 212 pp. Very good in wraps. Generic form TL from publisher praising the book loosely inserted.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition stated. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 Book; binding tight with near fine gilt titles to spine, boards straight and clean; mild remainder spray to bottom edge with name in black pen to front free end page else text free of marks, appears barely read. Price clipped dust jacket, with publisher's $11.95 priced label, has mild bumping and chipping with small paper loss to mostly spine and flap fold ends with 1/2" closed tear to top front cover. Color sharp. Under archival quality mylar cover. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Slightly Spine Faded.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. Small address label to the front end paper, remainder spray to the bottom of the page edges, else a clean copy of the First Edition in a like jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 247 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Bottom edge remainder speckle. Price clipped dustjacket.; First edition stated.; Remainder; 247 pages.

Zustand: Near fine. First edition. Scarce uncorrected proof (stated) of this bleak future fiction from the author of cult classics QUEEN'S GAMBIT and THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH. Nebula Award-nominated science fiction novel of a melancholy android who remembers how to read when the human masses have forgotten everything but their credo of "Inwardness, Privacy, Self-Fulfillment, Pleasure." Far from the worst set of values to hold: but a world of "Pleasure" that excludes novel-reading is an inherent dystopia, if one is an depressive android, or a novel-reader. Called an "unofficial sequel to FAHRENHEIT 451" by a contemporary reviewer for its thematic concerns, which include an old-style post-'60s moral panic over too much birth control and too many readily available good drugs, along with a genuinely moving romantic spirit. Tevis, whose novels had an astonishingly high rate of brilliant film and television adaptations - THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE HUSTLER, THE COLOR OF MONEY, and most recently QUEEN'S GAMBIT, long-beloved as a novel and newly beloved as a series - had a rare near miss with MOCKINGBIRD, which was once under consideration for adaptation as a TV movie, and still offers great rewards to the discerning reader. As James Sallis wrote in his review of a new edition, Tevis "collapses the whole of mankind's perverse, self-destructive, indomitable history, cruelty and kindness alike," into his remarkable narrative. Decidedly uncommon in this format. 8'' x 5.5''. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers, illustrated by Fred Marcellino. 212 pages. Spine mildly toned. Touches of shelfwear here and there. Else clean and sharp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition / First Printing. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. This dystopian novel by Tevis was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novel. Underappreciated machine dystopia by the author of THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT. Octavo quarter cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine. PLEASE NOTE that all our First Editions are also First Printings, unless we specifically note otherwise. All our dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers. Fine in near fine unclipped dj with faintest shelf wear and small nicked area on rear flap. No remainder spray, as often seen with this title. Nice copy.

Hardcover, 247 pages. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Minor wear to dust jacket, closed tears and small chips to edges. Corners rubbed. Price clipped in mylar protector. Light edge wear to quarter cloth boards, light foxing to text block edges. Pages crisp and clean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. Stated first edition. Unclipped ($10.00), mylar protected dust jacket. Clean text. No marks or writing. Tight binding. Sharp corners. There is a very slight nudge to the bottom/back board. A couple of shallow shelf bumps to the bottom of the boards. The DJ has a mild crease to the spine's head.

Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Machine dystopia in which the human race has voluntarily given up its freedom to machines and technology and Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, wants only to die . 1980 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1130. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 403. A fine copy in fine dust jacket priced $10.00 on the front flap. A lovely copy. (#178116).