Empire of the Sun.
by BALLARD, J.G
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Victor Gollancz, London., 1984. First edition. Octavo. 278 pages. Signed by the author on the title-page.Cheap quality paper tanned as usual. Tail of spine slightly pushed. Slight bump to bottom corner of front cover. Very good indeed in near-fine, first state dustwrapper (with puffs by Graham Greene and Angela Carter on rear panel) very slightly creased at top edge.
Synopsis
Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by J. G. Ballard which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Like Ballard's earlier short story, "The Dead Time" (published in the anthology Myths of the Near Future), it is essentially fiction but draws extensively on Ballard's experiences in World War II. Ballard later wrote a sequel, entitled The Kindness of Women.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BALLARDJ016285
- Title
- Empire of the Sun.
- Author
- BALLARD, J.G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz, London.
- Date Published
- 1984
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- First Edition
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- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.