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Honeybuzzard: Available Copies

2nd printing. Brown boards with trace edgewear and lightly bumped spine ends and corners. Jacket in new archival mylar sleeve has light edgewear and uneven toning; several tiny chips and tears; mild soil and creasing; flaps not clipped. Remainder mark to text block lower edge, also slightly touching jacket flap lower edges. Binding sound, text clean. Interior lightly toned. Minor offsetting to copyright page only. Small patch of abrasion and overlapping browned sticker ghost to ffep upper corner. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library.

Paperback. Ballantine Books 71001. Romance/sleaze novel. Very good+ condition. Minor edge-wear on front cover. Minor edge-wear on top and bottom edges of spine. Faint reader's crease along spine-edge on back cover.

First UK paperback edition. Slightly worn, but very good for its age. Aside from a squiggle on the back of the front cover, the book is clean inside: no writing or underlining. Not ex-library.

Usual library marks, pocket inside. Light wear, text pages are clean.

Hardback. Second Printing. Book is a Tight square unmarked copy in Very Good Condition with very slight page browning at the edges. Dustjacket is in Good to Very Good condition with slight browning at the edges which looks like accumulative cigarette smoke browning. Two inch closed tear at the top of the front cover was once repaired with scotch tape and has yellowed and come off. No creasing or chipping to the dustjacket, the browning and the repaired tear being the two major faults.$4.50 original price is present and unclipped.

Small scrunched spot at upper front joint, with a short closed tear. Still a nice copy.

Remainder mark. Half-inch tear to Very Good+ jacket.

First US Printing. Author's first book. Very good, in very good dust jacket with shelf wear and chips to jacket corners. "H" stamped on inside front cover.

First American edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear and a touch of soiling. A very nice copy of the author's first book, published in the U.K. as *Shadow Dance*.

Author's first novel. ***First impression of the first UK paperback edition (using the American title, as called for). ***Near fine in attractive colour-illustrated wrappers. Pages slightly browned. Edges of wrappers very slightly rubbed. No reading crease to spine. Spine tight. No inscriptions. No fading. Spine and front and rear wrappers bright. ***178mm x 110mm. 172 pages. *** 'Dark glasses, casual lust and violence --- a decided talent for the grotesque scene, the nightmarish atmosphere' New Statesman ***'A kind of glowing nightmare picture' Evening Standard (Review quotes from rear of wrapper blurb). ***First impression of the first UK paperback edition extremely hard to find in such nice, bright collectable condition. Of interest to collectors of rare Angela Carter first edition vintage paperbacks. Scarce. ***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.

Octavo, boards. Author's first book, published in England as SHADOW DANCE. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-35. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. (4778)

First U.S. edition of her first book. Near fine with small remainder mark in very good + or better unclipped jacket with one small closed tear to lower front panel and some wear to back panel. Scarce in any edition.

Author's First Book.Fine copy in a near fine jacket.First Edition.$4.50 on flap.Small remainder mark.Excellent Copy.Scarce.

First American edition. Near fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket. ( 2" 1/2"-inch tear at bottom of front cover jacket. Couple short edge tears & creasing as well. Spotting to cloth covers. No remainder marks! ) Author's uncommon FIRST book. Published in the U. K as "Shadow Dance."

First American edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (Couple short edge tears & trifle shelf wear at edges. Very tiny chip at crest of spine. Mild crease at head of front flap. Blue top-stain slightly faded. No remainder marks. ) Sharp copy of the author's FIRST mainstream publication. (Published in England as "Shadow Dance." ) (B)