HEAVY WATER AND OTHER STORIES.**
by AMIS**, MARTIN:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE./NFINE.
- ISBN 10
- 0224051261
- ISBN 13
- 9780224051262
- Seller
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About This Item
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour scenic, photographic illustrated dw/dj - photograph repeated to both covers - with minimal shelf-wear; negligible creasing to edges,no nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creases to head of spine/backstrip.Top edge minisculely thumbed,but generally clean else,fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight and very clean - and no dog-ear reading creases to corners.Bright,clean,plain blue paper-covered bds with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-231pp (paginated) half-title+title pages,a contents list (all unpaginated),9 novellas/short stories. Amis's short stories make his novels look prim.They are also more frankly satirical.Whole worlds are created - or invented.In 'Straight Fiction',everyone is gay (apart from the beleaguered 'straight' community); in 'Career Move', screenplay writers submit their works to little magazines, while poets are flown first-class to Los Angeles; in 'The Janitor on Mars',a sardonic robot gives us some strange news about life in the solar system.In 'Let Me Count the Times' a man has a mad affair with himself.'Heavy Water' portrays the exhaustion of working-class culture; 'State of England' its weird resuscitation.And in 'The Coincidence of the Arts' an English baronet becomes entangled with an African-American chess hustler.The earliest story,'Denton's Death',was first published in 1975,but the bulk of the collection can be firmly labelled 'most recent work'.See also rja713. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- rja27067
- Title
- HEAVY WATER AND OTHER STORIES.**
- Author
- AMIS**, MARTIN:
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- NFINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224051261
- ISBN 13
- 9780224051262
- Publisher
- LONDON.CAPE,1998.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1998
- Keywords
- q52.MODERN FIRSTS2.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0224051261.Dead Babies.The Rachel Papers.Modern firsts.Modern fiction.Books new,used,signed,rare.
- Bookseller catalogs
- MODERN FIRSTS2;
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