Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
James, P D. Innocent Blood. Charles Scribners, 1980.
Price: US$19.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 0571115667. Book Club edition of Faber 1980 ed, same dustjacket, SIGNED AUTHOR, no markings, pages toned, clean copy, Professional booksellers since 1981
Seller: GREENSLEEVES BOOKS, Oxford, United Kingdom
JAMES, P. D.. Innocent Blood. Faber and Faber, London, 1980.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 276 p. 21 cm. Red cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Signed by author on title page. Paper browning.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
P. D. James. Innocent Blood - SIGNED. Faber & Faber, 1980.
Price: US$51.69 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st edition, 1st printing hardback in unclipped dustjacket. Signed by the author on the title page with no other inscriptions. Book and dustjacket both in VG+ condition. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Scans available on request.
Seller: Mungobooks, Poole, United Kingdom
Price: US$58.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First impression of the true first edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author, with an interesting contemporaneous ownership signature and date of renowned race-horse owner Lettice Miller. ***Signed and inscribed on the title-page in blue fountain pen ink to an old-fashioned brown lined accounts paper (or a racing slip?) pasted neatly to the front free endpaper: 'With warm good wishes P. D. James'. The book's owner was the renowned racehorse owner Lettice Miller and has her ownership name and date: 'Lettice Miller 1980' to the top of the front free endpaper in blue biro pen. Lettice Miller (officially Mrs G. B. Miller), the first woman owner ever to win the Derby at Epsom in Coronation year 1937. ***Very good in red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Extremities slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed and creased. Small faint water mark to bottom of front board. No reading lean. Spine tight. Internally also very good, with no creases or tears. Paper stock slightly tanned (cheap paper stock used). Pages clean. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £5.95 net. Extremities of dustwrapper very slightly rubbed. Very small water mark to inside bottom edge of the front panel - not visible on the outside. Red titles to spine faded. Outer edge of the red titles to front panel adjoining spine also very slightly faded. No creases, chips or tears. Dustwrapper clean and bright. ***204mm x136mm. 276 pages. ***'After seven highly acclaimed detective novels featuring her Scotland Yard detective Commander Adam Dalgleish, P. D. James temporarily parts company with him and with the orthodox detective story to write a crime novel with a difference, without any doubt her finest yet. When Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child and believing herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father, becomes eighteen she exercises her right under the children act 1975 to apply for a copy of her birth certificate, and learns the facts about her parentage; that she is the child of a rapist and a murderess and that her mother is shortly to be released on licence from a life sentence. With this knowledge she moves into an alien world which is to prove more dangerous and terrifying than any she could imagine. For there is someone else interested in her mother's release - the father of the child she killed, who has dedicated his life to seeking out and destroying his daughter's murderess. ***In "Innocent Blood" P. D. James explores the themes of the growth of love and the search for identity in a novel of extraordinary power and originality which is both a mystery and a thriller. The sustained suspense moves to a climax which is as exciting and satisfying as anything she has yet written.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the true first edition, in its original dustwrapper, signed and inscribed by the author on a paper slip attached to the title-page, with a very interesting ownership name. Lettice Miller was the first ever woman owner to win the Derby at Epsom in the Coronation Year of 1937 with her colt Mid-day Sun, who won it by one and a half lengths. It was rumoured that the Queen wagered a bet of £1. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
P. D. James. Innocent Blood. Faber and Faber, 1980.
Price: US$62.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good clean copy of this signed first edition. Complete in a very good jaket
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
James, P. D.. INNOCENT BLOOD. Faber and Faber, London, 1980.
Price: US$69.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed, dated and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. 276 pages in very good condition; edges yellowed. Red hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Corners not bumped. Small stain on the bottom edge of the front cover. Illustrated DJ with orange/white titles. Very light wear on corners and edges. Not price clipped. VG/VG+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
James, P.D.. Innocent Blood. Faber, London, 1980.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Flat-signed by author on title page. Tanning to text. Rubbing on edges. ; vg/vg. First U.K. edition. Signed by the author on title page. Expected browning of paper. Corners bumped in slightly at upper edges. Clipped d/j. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: A Good Read, Toronto, ON, Canada
James, P. D.. Innocent Blood SIGNED. Faber and Faber, 1980.
Price: US$90.45 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition 1980. Fine copy flat signed to title and dated 1997, textblock unifromly toned throughout in a Near Fine Jacket with slight sun fade to spine. Not clipped. Octavo
Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
JAMES, P.D.. Innocent Blood. Faber & Faber, London, 1980.
Price: US$94.13 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Gilt lettered red cloth in pictorial dust jacket. This copy inscribed by the author " To.With every good wish from the author P. D. James 5 june 1980" Some edgewear and small stain to bottom edge o/w fine. Signed in the year of publication.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by the author: "To Dick Wilson / With best wishes / P.D. James." Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
JAMES, P.D.. Innocent Blood. Faber, 1980.
Price: US$96.91 + shipping
Description: A woman discovers her father was a rapist and her mother a murderess and searches for the truth of her past. Signed by James to the title page in 1992. Pages tanned.Price tippexed out from ffep otherwise Near Fine in unfaded Fine jacket (This book is usually found with spine faded due to the colours used by the publisher)
Seller: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, PERTH, United Kingdom
JAMES, P.D.. Innocent Blood. Faber and Faber, London, 1980.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Slightly cocked spine, small bumps on the top edge of the front board, and page toning else very good in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
JAMES, P.D.. Innocent Blood. Faber and Faber, London, 1980.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Top corner a bit bumped thus near fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the titlepage.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
James, P.D.. Innocent Blood (Signed). Faber & Faber, London, 1980.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 12mo, 276 pages; first impression; publisher's red boards, spine printed in gilt; fine pictorial dust jacket, with price of 5.95 BP on front flap. SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE without personalization. A beautiful copy, with light age-toning to text, as usual.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
JAMES, P.D.. Innocent Blood [with Signed Bookplate Laid In]. Faber and Faber, London, 1980.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo; red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 276pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Text edges browning (as is typical with this title), else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. A standalone crime novel, written as a departure from the author's Adam Dalgliesh mysteries.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
James, P.D.. Innocent Blood. Faber & Faber, 1980.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Flat-signed by author on ffep. ; 8.40 X 5.80 X 1.20 inches; 276 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: A Good Read, Toronto, ON, Canada
P.D.James. Innocent Blood (signed). Faber and Faber, London, 1980.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine, clean first edition of the early novel by this author. Book is clean throughout but does show age toning as is common with most British editions. This copy is signed and dated by the author(8 June 1980) on the title page. Jacket is very fine and is not price clipped. Jacket has been housed in a Brodart cover since new. A lovely copy of this early James and signed as well.
Seller: BDC Books, Stratford, ON, Canada
JAMES, P.D.. Innocent Blood/The Blood Tie (Uncorrected Proof). Faber & Faber, London, 1980.
Price: US$1657.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A rare and very unusual author-signed, uncorrected proof copy. Prior to its publication, "Innocent Blood" was to be called "The Blood Tie". This copy, acquired in the 1980s from a publisher's sales rep shows the original title and it comes with a proof jacket bearing the later title. I showed it to P.D. James when I visited her at her house in Holland Park, London in the 1990s for a private book-signing session and she vividly remembered the last minute change of title, although she said that she had only ever seen one copy other than the one she signed for me. Generally in very good+ condition with tanning to the green covers and the pages, else no real blemishes. It is boldly signed in blue ink to the title page. A real collectors' item!
Seller: MANOR COLLECTABLES, WOODHALL SPA, LINCS, United Kingdom