high rise von ballard (39 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gut. Alle Bücher & Medienartikel von Book Broker sind stets in gutem & sehr gutem gebrauchsfähigen Zustand. Dieser Artikel weist folgende Merkmale auf: Altersentsprechend nachgedunkelte/saubere Seiten in fester Bindung. Einband belesen/bestoßen. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 100.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Harsh and ingenious! 'High Rise' is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind.'--Martin Amis, 'New Statesman.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gut. Popular - 1st. 1978 : J. G. Ballard - tb MR-VK5V-QM61 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 136.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Fading and tape on the boards. Stain on the edges. Text is clear of markings and notations. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.88.

First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 204 pages. A chilling work that is considered one of the 100 Best Science Fiction novels by Pringle. Adapted into the 2015 movie of the same name with Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Siena Miller, and Elizabeth Moss. An about very good copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine but missing the front free endpaper and with a former owner signature to the half title page and in an about very good dust jacket a decent amount of edge wear and rubbing.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975 8vo., blue boards lettered in gilt to spine with publisher's device to foot; upper edge stained blue; in the iconic unclipped dustwrapper (£2.95 net) featuring a design of a block of flats by Craig Dodd; pp. [viii], 7-204, [ii]; aside from a very mild bruise to spine foot, and tiny splash marks to upper edge, a near-fine example in the near-fine dust jacket with the odd tiny spot and crease.  First edition.  High Rise was J. G. Ballard's eighth novel, following the success of Crash (1973) and Concrete Island (1974), both of which incorporated similar themes of technological advancement and the ways in which it affected the human psyche. Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930, and experienced conflict from a young age with the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. After the Battle of Hong Kong, he and his family were sent to an internment camp, where they lived in G Block for the remainder of the Second World War. These childhood experiences undoubtedly influenced his later writing, with many of his later works being set in mazes, bunkers, or here, in apartment blocks: "The reassuring stage-set that everyday reality in the suburban West presents to us is torn down; you see the ragged scaffolding, and then you see the truth beyond that, and it can be a frightening experience", he later claimed.  High Rise begins with the chilling opening lines "Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months", and follows a group of 2000 people living in a 40 storey tower block. As the novel develops, power outages and petty disagreements see the residents descend into a series of ever-escalating raids, acts of vandalism, and ultimately barbaric violence.  In 2015, the book was turned into a successful film starring  Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, and Elisabeth Moss in lead roles. .

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Signed and dedicated by the author to the title page at a book launch at Forbidden Planet in London. Original blue cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. A little pushing to spine foot, else fine in a fine and unclipped dust jacket. A fantastic copy. Rare with such attributes. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first impression, of Ballard's dystopian fable, "less about the collapse of technology than about the boil-like bursting of original sin across a glass-and-chrome landscape" (Quigly). Pringle A122. Isabel Quigly, "Crumbling Towers and Dreams", Financial Times, 13 November 1975. Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge blue. With dust jacket. Spine cocked and sunned, head of spine and foot of rear cover lightly bumped, spine end edges a little sunned; jacket faintly toned, edges lightly creased, unclipped: a very good copy in near-fine jacket.