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Angela Carter. Nights at the Circus. Chatto & Windus, London, 1984.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Briefly inscribed and signed by author on title page: "to xxx- all best wishes, Angela Carter" Light age-toning to text block. Dust jacket shows minor wear to top edge. Otherwise a very good copy with no further marks to covers or inside pages. Not ex-library. Not a remainder. Binding is firm. 294 pages.
Seller: Ethan Daniel Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Carter, Angela. Nights at the Circus - SIGNED. Chatto & Windus, 1984.
Price: US$574.76 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st edition, 1st printing hardback in unclipped dustjacket. Signed dedication by the author on the title page ( To xxx all best wishes Angela Carter) with no other inscriptions. Book and dustjacket both in near fine condition, with unfaded spine, slight tanning to page edges because of cheap paper used by the publisher. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. I am happy to supply scans.
Seller: Mungobooks, Poole, United Kingdom
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. Chatto & Windus, London, 1984.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Some spotting on the page edges else fine in an about fine dust jacket with a slight crease on the top edge. Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Carter, Angela. Nights At The Circus : Signed By The Author. Chatto and Windus, London, 1984.
Price: US$768.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The First UK printing published by Chatto and Windus, London in 1984. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Very slight pushing at the spine ends. A hint of offsetting to the end-papers with some light toning to the text-block. Some very early toning to the extreme page edges due to the quality of paper stock used. The WRAPPER is complete and is in near Fine condition with no fading of colouring to the spine. Some mild spotting to the flaps. The Barbara Kaiser wrapper artwork looks very striking in the removable Brodart archival protector. The book has been signed (without dedication) by the author to the title page. Some newspaper clippings and details of the book signing event are loosely inserted for provenance. Collectible. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
Price: US$968.70 + 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 'Grantas 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
Angela Carter. NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS SIGNED. Chatto & Windus, London, 1984.
Price: US$974.95 + shipping
Description: Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Lightly sunned spine. ; Personalized by author on title page. ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 304 pages; Signed by Author.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
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.
Angela Carter. Nights at the Circus. Chatto & Windus; The Hogarth Press, London, 1984.
Price: US$1285.15 + 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$1291.60 + 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