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Angela Carter. Nights at the Circus. Chatto & Windus. The Hogarth Press, LONDRA, 1984.

Price: US$6.68 + shipping

Description: INGLESE Legatura datata, copertina segnata da leggera compressione alla cuffia di piede, lacerazioni ai margini dei piatti, cuffia di testa, e piatto posteriore, sovraccoperta illustrata con bandelle, strappetti e sgualciture al bordo, pigmento ingiallito ombrato da polvere, patinato consumato da manipolazione, mancanze alle punte di testa delle ultime pagine, carte integre avvolte da ossidazione, minimo pulviscolo e fioriture ai tagli bruniti. N. pag. 294.

Seller: Biblioteca di Babele, Tarquinia, VT, Italy

CARTER, ANGELA. Nights at the Circus. Chatto & WIndus / Hogarth Press 1984, 1984.

Price: US$46.29 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, super octavo maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 294pp, VG+ (light tanning within, otherwise nr. FINE) in d/w VG+ (a touch of sl. creasing & soiling, sl. fading to spine)

Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand

CARTER, ANGELA. Nights at the Circus. Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press 1984, 1984.

Price: US$46.29 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, super octavo, fuschia pink boards, gilt lettering to spine, 295pp, VG+ (sl. scuffing to extrems, light tanning & moderate foxing to page egdes) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine, light foxing to front flap & internal sides)

Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand

ANGELA CARTER. NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS. CHATTO & WINDUS HOGARTH PRESS, LONDON, 1984.

Price: US$97.47 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. BOOK: FINE BAR MILD AGE TONING AND SLIGHT BUMPING TO SPINE ENDS. TIGHT BINDING, CORNERS SQUARE. NO INSCRIPTIONS. JACKET: CLIPPED AND A TAD FADED AT THE SPINE. NEVERTHELESS, RATHER SPLENDID. PLEASE SEE PHOTOGRAPHS.

Seller: WESSEX, GREAT TORRINGTON, DEVON, United Kingdom

Angela Carter. Nights at the Circus. Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1984.

Price: US$108.09 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed

Seller: GoldBooks, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Angela Carter. Nights at the Circus. Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1984.

Price: US$137.68 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description:

Seller: Hafa Adai Books, Moncks Corner, SC, U.S.A.

CARTER, Angela.. Nights at the Circus.. Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, London., 1984.

Price: US$162.44 + shipping

Description: First edition. Octavo. 295 pages.Fine in fine dustwrapper.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom

Carter, Angela. NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS. Chatto & Windus The Hogarth Press [1984], London, 1984.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, boards. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-65. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 87. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169084) (29792)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.

Carter, Angela. NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS. Chatto & Windus The Hogarth Press, London, 1984.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, decorated wrappers with black cloth spine. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-65. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 87. A fine copy. A very scarce proof. (#105809)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Carter, Angela. NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS. Chatto & Windus The Hogarth Press, London, 1984.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-65. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 87. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169084)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Angela Carter. Nights at the Circus. Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1984.

Price: US$342.08 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed

Seller: GoldBooks, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Angela Carter. Nights at the Circus. Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, London, 1984.

Price: US$600.02 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Near fine first edition, inscribed by Angela Carter on the title page. Slight bumping to spine ends. Minor wear to corners and edges. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding square and tight. Near fine dust jacket, slight wear to spine ends. Overall a beautiful first edition copy inscribed by Carter.

Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada

Carter, Angela. Nights At The Circus : Inscribed And Signed By The Author Pre-publication To Fellow Author Clive Sinclair. Chatto and Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1984.

Price: US$974.66 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The First UK printing published by Chatto and Windus / The Hogarth Press in 1984. The BOOK is in near Fine condition with just a little bumping to the lower corners and some light toning to the text-block. The WRAPPER is complete and is in near Fine condition with no fading of the spine colouring. The Barbara Kaiser wrapper artwork design looks very striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. The book has been Inscribed and signed by Angela Carter to the title Page; 'For Clive, all the best!, Angela'. The recipient was fellow author Clive Sinclair who in 1983 had been chosen as one of 'Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists' alongside Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan and Graham Swift. Accompanied by a loosely inserted Publisher's compliments slip announcing from Carmen Callil, the publication date of this title. She has warmly and simply signed this slip 'love'. Carmen Callil was at that time, the managing director of 'Chatto & Windus' and 'The Hogarth Press' where she remained until 1994. Prior to this, she had been extremely influential in setting up 'The Virago Press' in the late 70s. A wonderful association copy signed by the author prior to publication. An extremely scarce title with such attributes. Ashton rare Books welcomes direct contact.

Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom

Carter, Angela. Nights at the Circus. Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, London, 1984.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. (Precedes the American edition.) Signed by Angela Carter on title page. 295 pp. Crimson cloth lettered in gilt. Slightly toned pages, else Fine in Fine dust jacket. A canonical postmodern novel (with all the contradictions-in-terms that implies), the British author's second-to-last published during her lifetime and quite uncommon signed.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Carter (Angela). Nights at the Circus.. Chatto & Windus: Hogarth Press, 1984.

Price: US$1039.64 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 296, 8vo, original red boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, the edges gently toned with a few spots to top edge, dustjacket with a design by Barbara Kaiser, a sliver of spots at head of rear flap, near fine. Signed by the author on the title-page. Joint winner of the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1984, inaugurated in 1919, and in 2012 voted the best of the James Tait Black prize winners.

Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom

Angela Carter. Nights at the Circus. Chatto & Windus; The Hogarth Press, London, 1984.

Price: US$1293.05 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A fine first edition copy of this unique and thrilling novel by Angela Carter, a wonderful example of postmodern fiction, signed by the author to the title page. The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Nights at the Circus' is a postmodern novel on the life of Sophie Fevvers, a Cockney virgin who was hatched from an egg. A unique novel mixing various genres, the novel won the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.Written by Angela Carter, a noted author of feminist, magical realism, and picaresque novels. She is best known for 'The Bloody Chamber'. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper is fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

CARTER, Angela.. Nights at the Circus.. London: Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth Press, 1984, 1984.

Price: US$1299.55 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the title page, "for Robert - best wishes, Angela Carter, September '84", with a signed promotional postcard loosely inserted. This title won the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and in 2006 was successfully adapted for the stage. Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Head of spine just bumped, tiny of wear to lower edge of rear cover, contents uniformly toned with a few spots to edges; slightly sunned spine panel creased at head, trivial foxing to head of flaps, unclipped, fresh and bright: a near-fine copy in like jacket.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom