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William Gibson. Neuromancer [First Edition]. Victor Gollancz, 1984.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1984. First Edition. 251 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Book has been rebound by library, with stamp to reverse of title page. Pages remain bright and clear with mild tanning to edges. Occasional speckles of foxing. Binding remains firm. Paper and glue remnants to front free endpaper with large area of scuffing to front endpaper. Minor brown stains to fore edge of text block. Occasional brown marks to pages. Text is unaffected. Small green inscription to front endpaper and top edge of first and last pages. Boards have slight edge wear with corner bumping. Minor scuffing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Gibson, William. Neuromancer. Victor Gollancz, London, 1984.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First British edition and first hardcover edition, first printing. Very Good with light lean to binding, light wear to corners and spine ends, stain to top edge of front board. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with faint edge wear and damp stain to front panel at verso. A nice copy of Gibson's first novel, winner of the Nebula, Hugo and Philip K. Dick Award, and credited with starting the Cyberpunk genre.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Gibson, William. NEUROMANCER. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1984.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. "Flashy first novel which deals in 'cyberspace' -- the realm where computerized information takes on visible, three-dimensional form. A thriller plot is set against a background of sleazy cityscapes littered with electronic gadgetry. Fast, knowledgeable, and poetic in its effects." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 252. ". the pioneering 'cyberpunk' novel and arguably the most influential SF novel of the 1980s." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-439. Winner of the 1984 Nebula, 1985 Hugo and 1985 Philip K. Dick awards for best novel. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 100. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 423. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (25345) First British (and first hardcover) edition.
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Gibson, William. Neuromancer. Victor Gollancz, London, 1984.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A magnificent copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO fading, chips or tears with minor wear to the edges. This First Issue dustjacket has the publisher's printed price of £8.95 net present on the front flap. The book is in fantastic shape and appears UNREAD. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Gibson, William. Neuromancer. Victor Gollancz, London, 1984.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First British edition and first hardcover edition, first printing. Near Fine with light wear to corners and spine ends. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light fading to the spine panel, light general wear and light spidering to the surface of the laminate. Gibson's first novel, winner of the Nebula, Hugo and Philip K. Dick Award, and credited with starting the Cyberpunk genre.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Gibson, William. Neuromancer. Victor Gollancz, London, 1984.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First British edition and first hardcover edition, first printing. Near Fine with light wear to corners and spine ends, contents faintly tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with faint edge wear. A beautiful copy. Gibson's first novel, winner of the Nebula, Hugo and Philip K. Dick Award, and credited with starting the Cyberpunk genre.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$9624.49 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Three volumes, each signed by the author. Publisher's original cloth (mid-blue, dark-blue and black respectively) with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Each volume is in fine condition, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Each complete with their fine original dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. None of the dustwrappers are price-clipped (£8.95, £9.95, £10.95 to the lower front flap). Neuromancer and Count Zero are signed in blue ink underneath the author's printed name on the title page, Mona Lisa Overdrive is signed and dated June 9, 1988. Neuromancer was the first novel to win all three major science fiction awards (The Hugo, The Nebula and The Philip K. Dick award). A superb set of William Gibson's seminal work in the cyberpunk genre. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Gibson (William). Neuromancer.. Victor Gollancz, 1984.
Price: US$10266.12 + shipping
Description: FIRST ENGLISH (also the first hardback) EDITION, pp. 251, [1], crown 8vo, original blue boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket, fine. Inscribed by the author on the title-page: 'To Derek, Best, Wm Gibson '85'. A fine copy of the first hardback edition of a seminal and lauded work: Gibson's debut novel remains the only one to have won the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award and the Hugo Award in the same year.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
GIBSON, William.. Neuromancer.. London: Victor Gollancz, 1984, 1984.
Price: US$10907.76 + shipping
Description: First hardback edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page. An iconic cyberpunk novel, Neuromancer won the science fiction "triple crown": the Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick Awards. It is a landmark in modern science fiction writing and its cultural impact is still widely felt. The Ace paperback edition was issued earlier the same year in America. Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Small bump to head of spine; jacket bright, not price-clipped: a fine copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$12000.00 + shipping
Description: First British editions and true firsts of each of the novels that comprise Gibson's The Sprawl Trilogy. Octavo, three volumes. Each signed on the title page by William Gibson. Neuromancer is a review copy, with a slip laid into it. Each are fine in fine dust jackets. Rare and desirable signed and in this condition. Neuromancer, the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy, was the first winner of the science-fiction "triple crown:" the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace," in this book, "described as "a three dimensional representation of computer data through which users communicate and do business, alongside a whole host of more dubious activities."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Gibson, William. Neuromancer. Victor Gollancz, London, 1984.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First British edition, first printing; first hardcover edition. Signed by William Gibson on the title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine, with light wear to spine ends. In a Near Fine dust jacket with slight sunning to spine, light spidering to surface laminate, and several scratches with light corresponding indentations to the boards there as well. Gibson's first novel, winner of the Nebula, Hugo and Philip K. Dick Award, and has been credited with starting the Cyberpunk genre.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.