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McEwan, Ian. The Cement Garden. Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Price: US$155.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge green (rubbed). Foxing to edges, otherwise clean and unmarked. In unclipped dust jacket, faded to spine and with some browning to flaps. SIGNED by the author on title page.
Seller: Quinto Bookshop, London, United Kingdom
MCEWAN, Ian. The Cement Garden [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]. Jonathan Cape, London, 1978.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); hunter green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; teal topstain; dustjacket; [8],9-138,[6]pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Tiny patch of fading and some scattered foxing to topstain, else clean internally; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £3.50 net), with some light wear to crown and a small horizontal tear at upper left corner of front panel; Near Fine, without the usual sunning to the spine panel. The Booker Prize-winning author's first novel, centered around a group of children - aged 6-17 - who attempt to live on their own after the death of their parents. Basis for Andrew Birkin's 1993 film of the same name, starring Andrew Robertson and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Mcewan, Ian. The Cement Garden _ Signed. Jonathan Cape, London, 1978.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.No flaws to speak of.
Seller: James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.
MCEWAN, Ian. THE CEMENT GARDEN (SIGNED COPY). London : Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Price: US$226.16 + shipping
Description: First Edition, with the dust-jacket, of the author's first novel. A few small spots of foxing to the fore-edge of the pages. No previous owner's inscriptions or any other markings inside or out. An near fine copy in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. McEwan's haunting first novel marked him as a bold new voice in British literature. It tells the story of four orphaned siblings who decide to hide their mother's body in the basement encased in cement in order to avoid being split up by social services. As they struggle to maintain their secret the two older siblings begin to experience incestuous longings for each other.
Seller: Surrey Hills Books, Cranleigh, United Kingdom
Price: US$226.16 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine UK first edition, first printing hardback (minor spotting to textblock) in a near fine unclipped dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures of the book are available upon request.
Seller: Zeitgeist Books, Middlesex, United Kingdom
McEwan, Ian. The Cement Garden. London; Jonathan Cape;, 1978.
Price: US$284.32 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing of author's first novel. Signed by the author. Fine in near fine price-clipped dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
McEwan, Ian. The Cement Garden. Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Price: US$323.09 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. SIGNED by the author on title page. Publisher's green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. In dust jacket. Foxing to top-edge of text bock; green top-stain faded. Spine of dust jacket slightly sunned. *** A beautiful signed first printing of McEwan's macabre debut novel.
Seller: Quinto Bookshop, London, United Kingdom
McEWAN, Ian. The Cement Garden [Signed]. Jonathan Cape, London, 1978.
Price: US$349.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Impression of McEwan's first novel (preceded by two short story collections: First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets). 8vo: 138pp. Publisher's forest green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, grey end papers, illustrated dust jacket priced £3.50. Signed by the author without inscription on the title page. A superlative copy (apparently unread), virtually pristine. Filmed by Andrew Birkin in 1993, with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Andrew Robertson. The story "concerns a family of abandoned children coming to terms with life without their parents. It is about their simultaneous growth into adults and regression as children . . . [and] brings to mind many other novels concerned with children isolated from adults, most notably The Lord of the Flies. But where Golding's children run wild, and the reader is reminded of how the adult world provides checks on their natural aggression, McEwan's grow closer, and the reader is reminded of how the adult world provides checks on their natural sexuality." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
MCEWAN, Ian (born 1948). The Cement Garden. London: Jonathan Cape, 1978, 1978.
Price: US$381.24 + shipping
Description: [Modern literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.138. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page 'To Myra'. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and grey endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Ron Bowen, priced at £3.50 net. Some spotting to top edge. Jacket spine very slightly sunned, otherwise a crisp, near fine copy. The author's third book, and first full length novel.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
McEwan,Ian. The Cement Garden. Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Price: US$452.32 + shipping
Description: Near fine proof with sun-faded and somewhat rippled spine. McEwan's first novel and signed by the author.
Seller: first state books, Corsham, WILTS, United Kingdom
McEwan, Ian. The Cement Garden. Jonathan Cape, London, 1978.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Slight spotting top edge (very minor) else fine in a bright, unclipped, fine dustjacket (mylar-protected); title page SIGNED by author. (1st printing = 6,000 copies) IM's first novel, preceded by two story collections. A very attractive and collectible copy.
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Ian McEwan. The Cement Garden (SIGNED UK PROOF). Jonathan Cape, 1978.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition/First Printing. Uncorrected UK Proof. Near Fine in plain red wraps. Sunning to the spine else bright. Signed by the author on the title page. No other markings or inscriptions. First novel from the author.
Seller: MDS BOOKS, Mississauga, ON, Canada