Edité par doubleday, penguin, london, 2019
ISBN 10 : 0857526774 ISBN 13 : 9780857526779
Vendeur : Krokodile Books, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. first edition, first printing, very good. In a house in a wood. Book.
Edité par Doubleday & Co. Ltd: Penguin Random House, London, 2014
ISBN 10 : 0857534378 ISBN 13 : 9780857534378
Vendeur : Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition. First edition. Printing number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.
Edité par Doubleday/ Transworld Publishers Ltd)/Penguin Group, London, 2019
Vendeur : Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good ++. Etat de la jaquette : Dustjacket Very Good ++. First Edition - Later Print Run. 391 pages. Dustjacket has light wear/slight creasing to spine-ends and edges. Hardback binding has very light wear to spine-ends with slight creases, slight corner-wear. Pages very clean, very nice condition.
Edité par Doubleday: Penguin Random House, London, 2015
ISBN 10 : 0857534815 ISBN 13 : 9780857534811
Vendeur : Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition. First edition. Second Printing. 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.
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Edité par Doubleday (Transworld Publishers, Penguin Random House), London, 2018
ISBN 10 : 0857523740 ISBN 13 : 9780857523747
Vendeur : Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
Membre d'association : RMABA
Edition originale Signé
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, signed or possibly inscribed by Norris on title page ("Hay on Wye - 28.5.18"), has very slight shelfwear to spine ends and lower corner of rear board, otherwise a sharp, clean Near Fine copy in like dust jacket which has a hint of shelfwear to spine ends, and a touch of faint rubbing.
Edité par Doubleday / Transworld Publishers Ltd / Penguin / Random House, London, 2023
ISBN 10 : 0857527118 ISBN 13 : 9780857527110
Vendeur : The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Jacket by Carrie Ackroyd (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some very slight yellowing to page block, not price clipped (£25.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, looks almost unread. 419pp, illustrated. Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville (walking correspondent of 'The Times' sets out to interrogate the land beneath our feet, and how it has affected every aspect of human history from farming to house construction, the Industrial Revolution to the current climate crisis. In his thousand mile journey, Somerville follows the story of Britain's unique geology, travelling from the three billion year old rocks of the Isle of Lewis, formed when the world was still molten, down the map south eastwards across bogs, over peaks and past quarry pits to the furthest corner of Essex where new land is being formed by nature and man. Demystifying the sometimes daunting technicalities of geology with humour and a characteristic lightness of touch, Somerville's book tells a story of humanity's reckless exploitation and a lemming like surge towards self annihilation but also shows seeds of hope as we learn how we might work with geology to avert a climate catastrophe. It cannot fail to change the way you see the world beyond your door. Quite a scarce book.
Edité par Doubleday / Transworld / Penguin, London, 2019
ISBN 10 : 0857523643 ISBN 13 : 9780857523648
Vendeur : The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Jacket by Carry Ackroyd (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, very slight lean, not price clipped (£20.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and nearly square, overall a vg++ copy. 334pp, illustrated. When Christopher Somerville, author and journalist, set out to explore Britain's cathedrals, he found his fixed ideas shaken to the roots. Starting out, he pictured cathedrals, Britain possesses over one hundred, as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But as he journeys among favourites old and new, he discovers buildings and communities that have been in constant upheaval for a thousand years. Here are stories of the monarchs and bishops who ordered the building of these massive but unstable structures, the masons whose genius brought them into being, the peasant labourers who erected (and died on) the scaffolding. We learn of rogue saints exploited by holy sinners, the pomp and prosperity that followed these ships of stone, the towns that grew up in their shadows, the impact of the Black Death, the Reformation and icon smashing Puritanism, the revival brought about by the Industrial Revolution, and the hope and disillusion of two world wars. Meeting believers and non believers, architects and archaeologists, the cleaner who dusts the monuments and the mason who judges stone by its taste, we delve deep into the private lives and the uncertain future of these ever voyaging Ships of Heaven.
Edité par Doubleday / Transworld Publishers Ltd / Penguin / Random House, London, 2020
ISBN 10 : 0857525905 ISBN 13 : 9780857525901
Vendeur : The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale Signé
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Jacket by Anna Morrison (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2'. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, IN HEAVY BLACK PEN, WITHOUT DEDICATION, ON TITLE PAGE. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some faint dints to leading edges of front folds, Waterstones Exclusive 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front jacket, not price clipped (£16.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and almost square, overall a vg+ copy. 265pp. Mother to five children, journalist and author Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her touching, provocative and profoundly insightful book, she captures a sense of what motherhood really feels like, how intense, sensuous, joyful, boring, profound and dark it can be. 'My Wild and Sleepless Nights' examines what it means to be a mother, and reveals with unflinching honesty the many conflicting emotions that this entails: the joy and the wonder, the loneliness and despair. Scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).
Edité par Doubleday / Transworld / Penguin / Random House, London, 2019
ISBN 10 : 0857522841 ISBN 13 : 9780857522849
Vendeur : The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale Signé
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Jacket by Stephen Mulcahey (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, small closed tear to 'window' on front jacket, 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front jacket, slight lean, not price clipped (£12.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy. 293pp. Look around you. Who holds the most power in the room? Is it the one who speaks loudest, who looks the part, who has the most money, who commands the most respect? Or perhaps it's someone like Christine Butcher, a meek overlooked figure, who silently bears witness as information is shared and secrets are whispered. Someone who quietly, perhaps even unwittingly, gathers together knowledge of the people she's there to serve, the ones who don't notice her, the ones who consider themselves to be important. There's a fine line between loyalty and obsession. And when someone like Christine Butcher is pushed to her limit, she might just become the most dangerous person in the room. Quite scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).
Edité par Doubleday / Transworld / Penguin, London, 2018
ISBN 10 : 0857525883 ISBN 13 : 9780857525888
Vendeur : The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale Signé
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Jacket by Richard Ogle (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. A Waterstones Exclusive Edition, including extra material. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top corners very slightly bruised, slight lean, not price clipped (£20.00), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 345pp, illustrated endpapers. In 1940, eighteen year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathisers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever. Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence. Scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).
Edité par Doubleday / Transworld / Penguin, London, 2018
ISBN 10 : 0857525158 ISBN 13 : 9780857525154
Vendeur : The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale Signé
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Jacket by Shutterstock (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE, WITH TOPPING & CO 'SIGNED FIRST EDITION' BAND. Some minuscule edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£12.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread. 401pp. 1815: The war is over but for the inmates at Dartmoor Prison, peace like home is still a long way away. On the eve of the year 1815, the American sailors of the Eagle finally arrive at Dartmoor prison, bedraggled, exhausted but burning with hope. They've only had one thing to sustain them, a snatched whisper overheard along the way. The war is over. Joe Hill thought he'd left the war outside these walls but it's quickly clear that there's a different type of fight to be had within. The seven prison blocks surrounding him have been segregated, six white and one black. As his voice rings out across the courtyard, announcing the peace, the redcoat guards bristle and the inmates stir. The powder keg was already fixed to blow and Joe has just lit the fuse. Elizabeth Shortland, wife of the Governor looks down at the swirling crowd from the window of her own personal prison. The peace means the end is near, that she needn't be here for ever. But suddenly, she cannot bear the thought of leaving. Inspired by a true story 'Mad Blood Stirring' tells of a few frantic months in the suffocating atmosphere of a prison awaiting liberation. It is a story of hope and freedom, of loss and suffering. It is a story about how sometimes, in our darkest hour, it can be the most unlikely of things that see us through. Radio presenter Simon Mayo's debut novel for adults. Scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).
Edité par Doubleday / Transworld / Penguin, London, 2018
ISBN 10 : 0857524011 ISBN 13 : 9780857524010
Vendeur : The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale Signé
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Jacket by Beti Kelly (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN HEAVY BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'Matt - Katie Khan x. Really hope you enjoy this story of time travel and friendship. Thanks for the support! Kx'. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£14.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread. 306pp. Thea and Isaac first met at University. Theirs was an instant connection but it never went further than friendship. Because then and now, Thea only has eyes for her work. Not just her course, but also a private project, Thea is determined to prove that time travel is not just the stuff of science fiction. And she has never told anyone the reason why. When one of their friends goes missing in an experiment, Isaac and Thea must work together to find her, forcing them to reexamine their own friendship. Is it really as platonic as they used to think? Scarce signed. The Light Between Us is a story of unrequited love and second chances. It begs the dangerous question that we all ask ourselves - what could have been?. Signed by Author(s).
Edité par Doubleday / Transworld Publishers / Penguin Random House, London, 2019
Vendeur : Soin2Books, Kidderminster, WORCS, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Seventh impression. Two page map by Liane Payne, based on an original by J. Reynolds, 1851 and eight pages b/w photographs. Jacket design by Jo Thomson. Black boards with white lettering to front, back and spine. A near fine, clean, tight book with slight rubbing to corners in a near fine, unclipped (priced at £16.99), three quarter length jacket. Not ex-library. No labels, names, notes nor inscriptions. 416 pp. Appears little read. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.
Edité par Doubleday / Transworld / Penguin, London, 2017
ISBN 10 : 0857521926 ISBN 13 : 9780857521927
Vendeur : The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale Signé
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Jacket by Telegramme / Richard Ogle (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top corners very slightly bruised, very slight lean, not price clipped (£14.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and almost square, overall a vg+ copy. 325pp. 1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk, as long as it's vinyl he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his customers the music they need. Then into his life walks Ilse Brauchmann. Ilse asks Frank to teach her about music. His instinct is to turn and run. And yet he is drawn to this strangely still, mysterious woman with her pea green coat and her eyes as black as vinyl. But Ilse is not what she seems. And Frank has old wounds that threaten to re open and a past he will never leave behind. From the author of 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry', a future classic. Signed by Author(s).
Edité par Doubleday - Penguin, London, 2021
ISBN 10 : 1860469671 ISBN 13 : 9781860469671
Vendeur : SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, Royaume-Uni
Soft cover. Etat : Very Good Plus. UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF. Paperback. 19.5x13cm. 434 pages. Flat spine. Flat covers. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref o1996.
Edité par Doubleday - Penguin, London, 2019
Vendeur : SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, Royaume-Uni
Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF. Paperback. 19.5x12.5cm. 390 pages. Flat spine. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages are tanned. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref.
Edité par Doubleday - Penguin, London, 2021
Vendeur : SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF. Hardback. 24x16cm. 297 pages. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Page edges are orange. NO JACKET. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref tk25.
Edité par Doubleday (Transworld, Penguin Random House), London, 2020
ISBN 10 : 0857525107 ISBN 13 : 9780857525109
Vendeur : Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, Etats-Unis
Edition originale Signé
Hardcover. Etat : As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First printing (with just "1" on number line). A very fine (as-new) copy, without a jacket (as issued). A clean, tight copy. This copy has been SIGNED by Faber on the title page (as pictured). Several of Faber's works have been adapted into radio and film, including Jonathan Glazer's film "Under the Skin," starring Scarlett Johansson. Brit-UK-LD. Signed by Author(s).
Edité par Doubleday/Transworld Publishers (Penguin Random House), London, 2021
ISBN 10 : 085752738X ISBN 13 : 9780857527387
Vendeur : Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, Etats-Unis
Edition originale Signé
Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. 1st Edition. First printing of the first U.K. edition (the true first edition). A very fine (as-new) copy in a very fine (as-new) jacket. A clean, tight copy in an unclipped jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. This copy is one of just 1,500 numbered copies that has been SIGNED by Bailey on the special limitation page (as pictured). A beautiful copy of Bailey's debut novel. Signed-UK-LD. Signed by Author(s).