Gerald's Party Tapa dura - 1986

Hardback. Acceptable.

William Heinemann, London, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Very Good. Red coloured boards with silver coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip The story of a "... gathering of friends that begins ordinarily enough – or sorrow boards seem – but which soon proves to be a night none of them will ever forget. What Cooper has in store fit guest is part murder mystery, part domestic drama, part meditation on the nature of Time, theatre and Life as Theatre and Love (and its sorrows)." -- from front fold over panel blurb. Softening to the back strip edges with browning to the text block edges and pages. Tape residue can be seen to the endpapers and a previous owner has blocked out their name using "whiteout", to the top right hand corner of the free front endpaper. A little rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Leer más

London: Heinemann, 1986. First British edition / First printing. Red paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine price clipped dust jacket.

London: Heinemann. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0434142905 . SIGNED by author on full title page. "In Gerald's Party, his first major novel since the late seventies, Coover astonishes us once again and his range and brilliant imagination, inviting one and all to join him at, yes, a party, a gathering of friends that begins ordinarily enough - or so it would seem - but which soon proves to be a night none of them will ever forget." Ships same or next business day. Book's spine is slightly loose, small bumps on both ends of spine, pages are lightly tanned; otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has minor edge wear, light creases on both ends of spine, price-clipped. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 316 pages; Signed by Author .

London: Heinemann, 1985. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo. Hardcover. Very good/very good. red cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket unclipped, first edition, signed by author on title page translator's notes laid in.