This book has hardback covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In fair condition, suitable as a study copy.Dust Jacket in fair condition.
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If the Marquis de Sade were to crash one of P. G. Wodehouse's house parties, the chaos might resemble the nightmarishly funny goings-on in this novel by the author of London Fields. The residents of Appleseed Rectory have primed themselves both for a visit from a triad of Americans and a weekend of copious drug taking and sexual gymnastics. There's even a heifer to be slugged and a pair of doddering tenants to be ingeniously harassed. But none of these variously bright and dull young things has counted on the intrusion of "dead babies" -- dreary spasms of reality. Or on the uninvited presence of a mysterious prankster named Johnny, whose sinister idea of fun makes theirs look like a game of backgammon.
"Sparkling might not be the first adjective that springs to mind to describe a novel packed with the concentrated disgust which Dead Babies contains. Nevertheless, Martin Amis's version of the bleak and wrecky future that awaits a sex-and-drug-addicted society is so fizzing with style, so busy with verbal inventiveness, that the adjective is impelled upon one." -- Julian Barnes
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Vendeur : Compton Books, Guildford, Royaume-Uni
Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Uncorrected proof edition, card covers, covers has discolouring. Martin Amis second novel. N° de réf. du vendeur 1178
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Vendeur : Widney Manor Books, Solihull, MIDLA, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Former library book in good condition. Previous owner name inside cover. Wear to the dust jacket. N° de réf. du vendeur 020637
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Vendeur : Lacey Books Ltd, Cirencester, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Good. FIRST EDITION. 1975 Jonathan Cape hardcover first edition. Light reading wear, a little wear to edge of dustjacket, previous owner's bookplate and inscription to endpaper else very good condition. N° de réf. du vendeur XV-QO7X-3OIC
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Vendeur : Stephen White Books, Bradford, Royaume-Uni
hardcover. Etat : Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. Some marking due to age on pages, but overall book remains in good condition considering age. With Dust Cover. Quick dispatch from UK seller. N° de réf. du vendeur mon0000573525
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Vendeur : PulpFiction, Glebe, NSW, Australie
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean, intact DJ with some edge wear along the top.Previous owner's inscription in front-end paper.Slight foxing. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1684801163234
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Vendeur : Lacey Books Ltd, Cirencester, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Good. FIRST EDITION. 1975 Jonathan Cape hardcover first edition. Light reading wear, slight foxing to edges, small chips to dustjacket where it wraps around the front board else very good condition. Dustjacket now in protective removable archival sleeve. The book is housed is a custom slipcase, covered with black bookcloth and lined with red acid-free paper. N° de réf. du vendeur O7-4DQS-K2FR
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Vendeur : Lacey Books Ltd, Cirencester, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Etat de la jaquette : Good. FIRST EDITION. 1975 Jonathan Cape hardcover first edition. Some reading wear, marks and spotting to endpapers, neat repair to edge of dustjacket else good condition. Signed by Martin Amis. Signed by Author(s). N° de réf. du vendeur P9-87CC-NLP5
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Vendeur : Bull Run Books, Washington, DC, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Author's second novel. Some thumbing and light foxing to page edges in jacket with some edge wear and some minor chipping. N° de réf. du vendeur FF00011
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Vendeur : Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Craig Dodd (Jacket design) (illustrateur). First Edition. First printing of the true first edition of Martin Amis' second published novel. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright. Boards clean and unmarked. Top edge of text-block stained orange-red by the publisher - slightly faded and marked. Head and tail of spine uncreased. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine, with neat ownership initials and purchase date (1975) in pencil on the front pastedown - hidden by the dustwrapper flap. No other inscriptions or annotations. Pages clean. No foxing. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine printed dustwrapper, with a striking 70s design by Craig Dodd. The dustwrapper has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £3.25 net (no re-price sticker as is found on many copies). The dustwrapper is complete, with no creasing, chips or tears. Very unusually, there is no fading to the light-sensitive colours on the spine of the dustwrapper. Dustwrapper bright and clean. ***205mm x 130mm. 254 pages. ***'In his wickedly clever black comedy of manners, Martin Amis has projected a group of youngsters into a foreseeably "liberated" future. Indolent, heartless and predatory, they are the listless toys of the new morality, victims of repressions far more frightening than those they claim to have overcome. If "The Rachel Papers", Martin Amis's first novel, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, was a celebration of adolescence, "Dead Babies" is an elegy for its absence. It is a sobering forecast of what permissiveness wil do to its children.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the true first edition of the second novel by Martin Amis, in its original dustwrapper, in nice, bright condition. Quite a scarce book, and almost impossible to find without fading to the spine of the dustwrapper. This copy is absolutely unfaded. ***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. N° de réf. du vendeur 8781
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Vendeur : timkcbooks, Penzance, Royaume-Uni
First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Near fine, slightly bumped to the top corners and with small ownership inscription on front endpaper in near fine marginally sun faded dustjacket. N° de réf. du vendeur 11338
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