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Price: US$10.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". 32 pp. Binding firm. Dust Jacket slightly marked and worn. Edges slightly foxed and browned. Ex-library, with minimal stamps and markings (Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Poetry; Theatre & Plays. ISBN: 0224029479. ISBN/EAN: 9780224029476. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50491.
Seller: Dreadnought Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
Price: US$10.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original gilt lettered green cloth, dust jacket, 8vo.
Seller: Klondyke, Almere, Netherlands
McEwan, Ian. Or Shall we Die?. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A hardback book with green boards and in fine condition, dated 1983, First Edition. Words for an oratorio set to music by Michael Berkeley.
Seller: Merandja Books, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Price: US$14.96 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover, in dust jacket. Mild soiling and rubbing to jacket, which is price-clipped. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada
Price: US$18.22 + shipping
Description: Narrow 8vo 32 pages. Cloth in slightly shelf-worn d/w. Internally VG. Includes an introductory essay by McEwan and the libretto.
Seller: Travis & Emery Music Bookshop ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$26.94 + shipping
Description: Fine copy in slightly soiled dust-wrapper
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
McEWAN, Ian. Or shall we die?. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1983.
Price: US$29.50 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, 1983. Signed by author on title page (no inscription). A clean, tidy copy in tight binding. Dust jacket not price-clipped; a little yellowed, with damp stains on rear panel. Used - Very Good. SIGNED copy VG hardback in Good dust jacket
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
MCEWAN, IAN. Or Shall We Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1983, 1983.
Price: US$29.92 + shipping
Description: 1st ed. Fine in near fine DJ.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 32 p. 23 cm. Green hardcover in grey dustjacket. Slight soiling to jacket.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
McEwan, Ian ( Michael Berkeley. Or Shall We Die?: An Oratorio. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1983.
Price: US$30.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Words for an Oratorio set to music by Michael Berkeley. Signed to title page by Ian McEwan and Michael Berkeley. Very good condition hardback. Jacket has a 1.5 inch tear to head of spine, with light tanning and with 2 small marks to back of jacket. - General information: please email for any more information or condition photos. There may be other minor faults not included here, but this description should include all important points and convey accurately the overall conditon of the book(s). We are happy to give a more detailed description (by volume where applicable) on request. Posted next day (Mon-Fri) from the UK. We normally post by Royal Mail 1st class within the UK, but may use a slower service for books over 1kg or multiple orders or a tracked service for higher value orders. We normally post by Royal Mail Airmail for overseas deliveries, and may request additional postage (at cost) for heavier books or for tracking (buyers always have the option to cancel the order if we do so).
Seller: Jaycey Books, Ruislip, United Kingdom
Ian McEwan. or SHALL WE DIE?. Jonathan Cape, 1983.
Price: US$32.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition. Front cover has small scratch, barely visible. Otherwise 'As New'.
Seller: The Secret Book and Record Store, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
McEwan, Ian. Or Shall We Die?. Jonathan Cape. First English edition, London, 1983.
Price: US$33.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: McEwan's words for Michael Berkeley's music; introduction, 13pp., by the author. Very good in first issue dustwrapper darkened on the spine.
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
MCEWAN, IAN. Or Shall We Die. Jonathan Cape, Lodon, 1983.
Price: US$33.66 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A very near fine copy in like dust jacket.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
McEwan, Ian. Or Shall We Die?. Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1983.
Price: US$35.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing in first state jacket. The boards are clean and bright. The page edges have a little spotting and there is light spotting to the endpapers. The pages are otherwise unmarked but do have a slight musty smell. The jacket has a tiny nick in the top edge of the front panel, a little spotting to the right hand edge of the front panel, to the spine and along the upper edge of the rear panel. Small brown stain to centre of rear panel and another small stain to the rear flap.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
McEwan, Ian. Or Shall We Die. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$37.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, book in excellent condition. Dust jacket with a dark patch from old price sticker to front cover and rear, edge-wear, with yellow staining to rear cover, spine of dj sunned. Signed by McEwan on the title page with a line through printed name.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
McEwan Ian. Or Shall we die?. Jonathan Cape, 1983.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: All books outside UK sent airmail. All dustwrappers are film protected. Signed by the author on the title page. Words for an oratorio set to music by Michael Berkeley. Near fine pictorial dustwrapper.
Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo. 32pp. Green cloth. Spine ends lightly bumped, near fine in near fine dust jacket with modest soiling, first issue dust jacket with no statement about National Peace Book Week on front panel of jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$46.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback in jacket 1983. 1st impression book in the1st state jacket. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket is not torn. Front flap is priced: £4.95. Jacket does not have any mention of the "National Peace Book Week" which the later printings do have. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref A7. or Shall We Die? Words for an Oratorio set to music by Michael Berkeley. Published by Jonathan Cape, London
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Ian McEwan. Or Shall We Die?. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$46.82 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st impression in first state D/j, unread, not price clipped, no owner's name or other inscription, hint of age toning to page ends (text unaffected), D/j has no tears, nicks , creases or marks and is protected by a clear removable sleeve. This copy purchased new by me upon publication.
Seller: MHO - Collectors' Books, Fittleworth, Pulborough, United Kingdom
McEwan, Ian. OR SHALL WE DIE. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Lyrics for an oratorio set to music by Michael Berkeley commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth in original dust jacekt. Light shelfsoil to jacket, with minor wear at edges. Interior bright and clean. Very good. 32pp. Very good in a very good jacket.
Seller: Brian Cassidy Books at Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo. 32pp. Green cloth. Small stain on rear board, near fine in near fine dust jacket with corresponding internal stain, first issue dust jacket with no statement about National Peace Book Week on front panel of jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
McEwan, Ian. Or Shall We Die?. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Very fine in VF dustjacket (mylar-protected). 1st printing = 2500 copies. 'Words for an oratorio set to music by Michael Berkeley'
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
McEwan, Ian. Or Shall we Die?. London; Jonathan Cape;, 1983.
Price: US$51.31 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Very good with a bit of foxing in very good pictorial dustjacket (second state) (to tie in with the National Peace Book Week in 1983)
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
McEWAN Ian. or Shall We Die? Words for an Oratorio set to music by Michael Berkeley. , 1983.
Price: US$55.42 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., original green cloth, dust jacket. London, Jonathan Cape. The less common issue, with the pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in dust jacket.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo. 32pp. Green cloth. A fine copy in fine, first issue dust jacket with no statement about National Peace Book Week on front panel of jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Ian McEwan. Or Shall We Die. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$62.85 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A copy of Or Shall We Die? with the pictorial dust wrapper which tied into the National Peace Book Week choice in 1983. The first edition, first impression, second state. In the original pictorial unclipped dust wrapper. Or Shall We Die is an oratory with words written by Ian McEwan. It was set to music by Michael Berkeley and performed at the London Festival Hall by the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. The performance was conducted by Richard Hickox on the 6th of February 1983. It covers issues surrounding the arms race during the 1980s and the idea of war. McEwan asks if the world is ready for the consequences of war. In the original publisher's cloth in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart. The boards are bright and clean. Internally firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. First edition. Variant jacket, illustrated front panel. Small bump on fore edge of jacket and boards; very slight edge wear. Pages clean, binding tight.
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
McEWAN, Ian. Or Shall We Die. Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1983.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Words for an oratorio set to music by Michael Berkeley. Fine in fine, second issue, dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 32 pag - name on first free end-paper
Seller: Von Meyenfeldt, Slaats & Sons, Breda, Netherlands
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. First Edition. An oratorio by McEwan, set to music by Michael Berkeley, and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. Contains a 14-page introduction by McEwan. Like-new green boards in VG price-clipped first state dust jacket.
Seller: White Square - Fine Books & Art, Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.
McEwan, Ian. Or Shall we Die?. London; Jonathan Cape;, 1983.
Price: US$76.96 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Near fine (Ownership inscription) in near fine dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Description: First edition. 32 pages.Signed by the author on the title-page.Fine in very near fine second issue pictorial dustwrapper slightly faded at the spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
McEwan, Ian. Or Shall we Die?. London; Jonathan Cape;, 1983.
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by the auithor. Fine in fine pictorial dustjacket (second state) (to tie in with the National Peace Book Week in 1983).
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
McEwan, Ian. Or Shall we Die?. London; Jonathan Cape;, 1983.
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Fine in fine pictorial dustjacket (second state) (to tie in with the National Peace Book Week in 1983)
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first prnt. First issue dustjacket. Review Copy with the publisher's printed slip laid-in. Signed and dated "Feb-11-83" by Martin Booth. Faint beginning toning of dustjacket front panel topedge (not immediately apparent). Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Booth, a poet, small press publisher, novelist and non-fiction writer, was MAN/Booker shortlisted for Industry of Souls.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
McEwan, Ian. or Shall We Die. Jonathan Cape, 1983.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Signed by the author. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Ian McEwan. Or Shall We Die?. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine first edition signed by Ian McEwan on the title page. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Near fine jacket. Not price-clipped. No tears or creases of any kind. A slight sticker residue to top right corner of front cover, else fine. Overall a lovely first edition signed by McEwan.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
McEwan, Ian. Or Shall We Die?. London Jonathan Cape 1983, 1983.
Price: US$100.05 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, first impression, SIGNED by the author on the title page. Publisher's olive cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective archival sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. 32. Words for an oratorio set to music by Michael Berkeley and first performed on 6th February 1983 by the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at the Festival Hall, London. A book in Fine condition in a Very Good dust-jacket.
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. Signed on title page. First issue - grey DJ with slate type, green boards and gold type. Slight sunning to DJ, now in mylar cover. Else a clean copy with sound binding.
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
McEWAN, Ian. Or Shall We Die. Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1983.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Words for an oratorio set to music by Michael Berkeley. Fine in modestly soiled near fine first issue dustwrapper. Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
McEWAN, Ian. Or Shall We Die. Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1983.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo. 32pp Fine in about fine first state dust jacket with a bit of light soil on the lower panel and a hint of sunning on the spine. Signed by McEwan on the title page.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
McEwan, Ian. Or Shall we Die?. London; Jonathan Cape;, 1983.
Price: US$128.27 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
McEwan, Ian,Berkeley, Michael. Or Shall We Die?: An Oratorio. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1983.
Price: US$128.27 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed. First Edition. Flat signed by the author and composer on the title page. First edition.
Seller: Parrot Books, Hemel Hempstead, HERT, United Kingdom
McEwan, Ian. Or Shall We Die? - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An attractive first edition/first Impression in Fine condition in alike dust-wrapper, SIGNED by author Ian McEwan directly on the title page; The Oratorio with words by Ian McEwan and music by Michael Berkeley was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Richard Hickox, on 6 February 1983 and broadcast later the evening on BBC Radio-3, with Heather Harper and Stephen Roberts as the soloists ; 8vo ; 32 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
McEwan, Ian. Or Shall We Die? - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Jonathan Cape, London, 1983.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A most handsome first edition/first printing in Unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket SIGNED by author Ian McEwan directly on the title page; The Oratorio with words by Ian McEwan and music by Michael Berkeley was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Richard Hickox, on 6 February 1983 and broadcast later the evening on BBC Radio-3, with Heather Harper and Stephen Roberts as the soloists ; 8vo ; 32 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.33 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first impression. Octavo, pp 32. Bound in green cloth covered hard boards and in the original un-clipped dust jacket (£4.95 net). SIGNED to the title page by both Ian McEwan and Michael Berkeley. Fine condition book in Fine dust jacket. Uncommon to find signed by both McEwan and Berkeley.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Price: US$277.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 32. cloth (previous ownerÕs signature on front free endpaper). dw (2 short tears in dw, with small stain). First Edition, Signed Presentation Copy.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
McEwan, Ian. Or Shall we Die?. London; Jonathan Cape;, 1983.
Price: US$320.67 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. An oration by Ian McEwan (who wrote the words) Michael Berkeley (who composed the music). Signed by both Ian McEwan and Michael Berkeley. Fine in fine dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
McEWAN, Ian. Or Shall We Die. Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1983.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Words for an oratorio set to music by Michael Berkeley. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by Ian McEwan and Michael Berkeley. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.