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CROWLEY, John.. Little Big. FIRST EDITION, UK.. Victor Gollancz London, 1982.
Price: US$96.21 + shipping
Description: Gollancz. 1982. First edition, UK. Large format paperback. Cover is worn slightly and spine has been sunned. Ownership signature of Anthony Roberts, the famous occultist, to inside front cover. Very light foxing to page edges, and pages slighty browned otherwise a clean and tight copy.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Crowley, John. LITTLE, BIG. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1982.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, printed wrappers. 1982 World Fantasy award winner. "A now recognized landmark of modern fantasy, Crowley's novel encompasses many worlds in its ambitious scope and triumphs on all counts ." "A literate, touching and unassuming masterpiece." - Barron (ed.), Fantasy Literature, 4A-79. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-85. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels #76. Some mild soiling and shelf wear to the wrappers, title and author printed in ink to the spine, a nearly fine copy. (19618) Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first British edition.
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Crowley, John. Little, Big. Victor Gollancz, London, 1982.
Price: US$192.92 + shipping
Description: Hardcover, gilt on spine, with dust jacket. 538 p. -(Some minor shelf wear to the dj, but otherwise the book is in excellent condition. Binding tight, block square, pages bright and clean. A very collectable copy.).
Seller: Antiquariaat Berger & De Vries, Groningen, Netherlands
JOHN CROWLEY.. Little, Big. A novel.. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1982.
Price: US$224.48 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first English and first casebound edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition which only appeared in paperback format. 8vo. 538pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A touch of very light bruising to the backstrip ends, and a faint scattering of very light spotting to the fore edge. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, with a very light score to the front panel. No price is printed to the front flap of the wrapper (although the price of the soft-cover UK edition is mentioned), suggesting that this might have been a copy intended for export. The author's fourth novel, winner of the World Fantasy Award, and deemed a "neglected masterpiece" by Harold Bloom, and "the best fantasy novel ever. Period" by Thomas M.Disch.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Crowley, John. LITTLE, BIG. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1982.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. 1982 World Fantasy award winner. "A now recognized landmark of modern fantasy, Crowley's novel encompasses many worlds in its ambitious scope and triumphs on all counts ." "A literate, touching and unassuming masterpiece." - Barron (ed.), Fantasy Literature, 4A-79. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-85. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels #76. A nearly fine copy in a very good to nearly fine dust jacket without a printed price (likely an export copy) with wrinkling to lamination (production flaw) some light stains to rear panel and upper left corner of rear panel. (25381) First British and first hardcover edition.
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Crowley, John. LITTLE, BIG. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1982.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. 1982 World Fantasy award winner. "A now recognized landmark of modern fantasy, Crowley's novel encompasses many worlds in its ambitious scope and triumphs on all counts ." "A literate, touching and unassuming masterpiece." - Barron (ed.), Fantasy Literature, 4A-79. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-85. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels #76. Corners a little bumped, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket, without a printed price (likely an export copy) with a touch of shelf wear and a small closed tear to lower front flap (15724) First British and first hardcover edition.
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
John Crowley. Little, Big. Victor Gollancz LTD, London, 1982.
Price: US$487.45 + shipping
Description: The first edition of this fantasy work set in the world of Faerie, written by John Crowley, in the original price-clipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work. In the original price-clipped dustwrapper. 'Little, Big' is a contemporary fantasy novel, in which the architect John Drinkwater begins to suspect that the is another world within his own. Written by John Crowley, an American fantasy author, who has also written science fiction and historical fiction. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Some very light marks to the boards. A couple of light spots to the fore edge. Dustwrapper with minor edgewear and some spots. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Crowley, John. Little, Big. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1982.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition, hardcover, signed by Crowley on the title page, the book has a minor skew to the binding, a small gap starting between the text block and case at the head of the spine, bumps with mild creasing to the spine ends and cover corners, a short split to the cloth at the head of the spine, a thin reading crease to the rear gutter, and some effaced bookseller marks to the head of the first free end page. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, Very Good copy in a like dust jacket, which has bumps with mild creasing to the spine ends and corners, faint rubbing with a touch of edge wear to the covers, and a touch of foxing to the interior. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar, and additional images are available upon request.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Crowley, John. Little, Big. Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1982.
Price: US$574.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st ed/1st printing, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square, solid, and plausibly unread; the boards are solid and unblemished. The sides of the pages have a cinnamon-dusting of foxing, mainly to the tops, and this has carried over a bit to the flaps of the dust jacket which is, externally, gorgeous and unmarked and in a protective Brodart cover. No price clippings, no remainder marks. You'll feel as though you've been wandering over the hills and far away, beyond the fields we know, through faery lands forlorn, once you have this book in your hands!
Seller: Barsoom Books, torrance, CA, U.S.A.
Crowley, John. Little, Big. Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1982.
Price: US$599.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st ed/1st printing, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square, solid, and plausibly unread; the boards are solid and carry only the faintest evidence of handling, and the lovely dust jacket, bearing just a little evidence of crinkling at head and heel of spine, is in a protective Brodart cover. No price clippings, no remainder marks. You'll feel as though you've been wandering over the hills and far away, beyond the fields we know, through faery lands forlorn, once you have this book in your hands! NOTE: VERY light evidence of handling to the sides of the pages.
Seller: Barsoom Books, torrance, CA, U.S.A.
Crowley, John. LITTLE, BIG. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1982.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. Signed by Crowley. 1982 World Fantasy award winner. "A now recognized landmark of modern fantasy, Crowley's novel encompasses many worlds in its ambitious scope and triumphs on all counts ." "A literate, touching and unassuming masterpiece." - Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature, 4A-79. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-85. Pringle: Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels #76. Some very light spotting to fore edges of the free end-papers, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with some foxing to the verso with some bleed through along the edges, mild shelf wear along top edge, small nick to jacket rear panel near spine fold. (11595) First British and first hardcover edition.
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.