Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
John Irving. The Imaginary Girlfriend [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Bloomsbury, London, 1996.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Bloomsbury, 1996. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Irving loosely laid in at front. Small octavo. 148 pages + black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. A memoir of writing and wrestling, first published in the U.K. and incorporated into Trying to Save Piggy Sneed the next year in the U.S. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges. Boards show a touch of shelfwear to edges. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Irving, John. The Imaginary Girlfriend. Bloomsbury, London, England, 1996.
Price: US$158.13 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Book & Jacket, Signed plate in protective cover
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Irving, John. The Imaginary Girlfriend: A Memoir. Bloomsbury, London, 1996.
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special, decorative bookplate. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. 1ST PRINTING. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 148 pages. This is not a remainder or bookclub.
Seller: Books Plus, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.
IRVING, John. The Imaginary Girlfriend. Bloomsbury, (London), 1996.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The uncorrected proof copy of the first British edition of this title, which was incorporated into the U.S. edition of Trying to Save Piggy Sneed and had no separate U.S. printing. Inscribed by Irving. Fine in a near fine, proof dust jacket, worn where it overlays the proof, with the price of £13.99 (later lowered to £9.99). An uncommon proof (the British trade edition would have had a proportionally smaller printing than a U.S. one would have had, and the proof equally so), especially with the proof jacket, and even more so signed by Irving. This is the first signed copy of it we have handled. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.