Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
McEwan, Ian. The Imitation Game and Other Plays (UK HB 1st). Jonathan Cape, 1981.
Price: US$19.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: UK hardback first impression. VG with previous owner name to ffep, in Good jacket, unclipped with some browning and a few marks to spine.
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
McEwan, Ian. The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television. Jonathan Cape, 1981.
Price: US$28.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 310 grams.
Seller: Book Souk, Porstoy, United Kingdom
McEwan, Ian. The Imitation Game Three Plays for Television. Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1981.
Price: US$48.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Three Plays:1. Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration 2. Solid Geometry 3. The Imitation Game. Clean cover with light browning to some of the boards margins and spines side edges. Light foxing to top-edge. Clean contents. Binding is As New. 175p Dj: clean jacket. Faint browning to spine & flaps spines. Single foxing spot to front flap.
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
McEwan, Ian. The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television. Jonathan Cape, 1981.
Price: US$50.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: We're happy to combine shipping to save you some money. We're also always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of any and all books for you, please just ask! British first edition, first printing. Back of jacket has a 1 inch tear top left corner. Jacket is NOT price clipped. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. The binding is straight and tight. NO remainder mark.
Seller: The Book Scouts, Sanborn, NY, U.S.A.
McEWAN, Ian. The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television. Jonathan Cape, London, 1981.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some modest soiling.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
MCEWAN, Ian. THE IMITATION GAME. Three Plays For Television.. London: Jonathan Cape., 1981.
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Original white and black speckled cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent very near fine copy, the binding square and tight with a little toning to the top edge, the contents, with a few tiny spots to the text block top edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased original dustwrapper which is a touch faded to the spine. Not price-clipped (£5.95 to the front flap). A lovely copy. 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
McEWAN Ian. The Imitation Game. Three Plays for television. , 1981.
Price: US$82.99 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., original fawn cloth, dust jacket. London, Jonathan Cape. A fine copy in dust jacket.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 8 x 5.25 inches. 175 pp. Bound in original cream cloth, with black titles, in pictorial price clipped dust wrapper. Slight traces of edge spotting, but otherwise a fine copy. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Three plays written for television by novelist, Ian McEwan (b. 1948). It includes The Imitation Game, broadcast by the BBC as a Play for Today in 1980, and later made into a successful film. It is set in a wartime wireless listening station and later in Bletchley Park, the centre of code-breaking activities, featuring the German Enigma machine and the mathematics don, Turner, loosely based on computer pioneer, Alan Turing. ART / LITERATURE DRAMA 20TH CENTURY DUST WRAPPER DRAMA ART / LITERATURE
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Clean copy in DJ. Signed by the author. Three plays for television. One of the author's less common titles.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); cream and grey cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-175,[1]pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Fine in a price-clipped, else Fine dustjacket. Contains three television plays: Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration, Solid Geometry, and The Imitation Game.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.28 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 8 x 5.25 inches. 175 pp. Bound in original cream cloth, with black titles, in pictorial unclipped dust wrapper. Slight traces of edge spotting, but otherwise a fine copy. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Three plays written for television by novelist, Ian McEwan (b. 1948). It includes The Imitation Game, broadcast by the BBC as a Play for Today in 1980, and later made into a successful film. It is set in a wartime wireless listening station and later in Bletchley Park, the centre of code-breaking activities, featuring the German Enigma machine and the mathematics don, Turner, loosely based on computer pioneer, Alan Turing. ART / LITERATURE DRAMA 20TH CENTURY DUST WRAPPER DRAMA ART / LITERATURE
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$121.68 + shipping
Description: [Television Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.175 [1]. Publisher's oatmeal cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Craig Dodd, priced at £5.95. A minor bump and a light mark to jacket front cover. A fine copy. Not to be confused with the 2014 film, which was based on Andrew Hodge's 1983 biography of Alan Turing. This television play actually has very little to do with Turing, and much more to do with the role of female staff at Bletchley Park, and their total exclusion from the top-secret 'Ultra' ring. Also containing two other experimental plays written by McEwan in the late 1970's, 'Solid Geometry' being banned by the BBC shortly before production began, creating an inevitable sensation at the time.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
MCEWAN, Ian. THE IMITATION GAME Three Plays For Television. London: Jonathan Cape., 1981.
Price: US$121.68 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A near fine copy with no inscriptions or stamps in a near dustwrapper. Not price-clipped. 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
MCEWAN, Ian. The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television. Jonathan Cape, London, 1981.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 175 p. 21 cm. Hardcover in mylar-covered dustjacket. Contains: Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration; Solid Geometry; The Imitation Game. Introduction explains the thinking behind all three plays.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
MCEWAN, Ian. The Imitation Game. Three Plays for Television. Jonathan Cape, London, 1981.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Small octavo. 175pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A lovely copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
McEwan, Ian. The Imitation Game; Three Plays for Television. Jonathan Cape, London, 1981.
Price: US$224.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with plastic covered (not glued) unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Discolouration and a few marks to the jacket, and page block is lightly tanned. Pages and text are otherwise clear and unmarked throughout. LW
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
MCEWAN, Ian. The Imitation Game. Three Plays for Television. Jonathan Cape, London, 1981.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Small octavo. 175pp. Fine in fine, price-clipped dust jacket with publisher's price sticker affixed to lower front front flap. Signed by McEwan on the title page, his fourth book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
McEwan, Ian. The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television. Jonathan Cape, London, 1981.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 175 pages. First English edition, first printing. Dust jacket art design by Craig Dodd. His first play and fourth book. Three plays written for television, Solid Geometry, Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration & The Limitation Game. Signed by McEwan on the title page. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Price clipped. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in a fresh, unclipped fine first-issue dustjacket (mylar-protected); title page SIGNED by author. Beautiful copy of author's fourth book. first printing = 3,000 copies. .
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada