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Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic: Available Copies

The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Shows very minimal signs of wear and previous use. Can include notes highlighting. A portion of your purchase benefits nonprofits! - Note: Edition & format may differ from what is shown in stock photo & item details. May not include supplementary material such as toys, access code, dvds, etc.

Price sticker on back, otherwise very good paperback 000715092X

Fairly worn, but readable and intact. If applicable: Dust jacket, disc or access code may not be included.

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

Very good, with good jacket.

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first edition/first printing book is tight with no markings, customary library markings and attachments, dj has mylar cover taped to boards

First printing with number line to 1. Blue and purple boards with silver spine titling, very good with light edgewear. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket good to very good with light shelf-wear and edgewear, lightly foxed to verso. Textblock fore-edge lightly foxed, dusty top edge. Interior clean, text unmarked.

ISBN 0-06-621392-4. Hardback. First Printing. Very Good condition in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges. Black pen remainder slash to bottom of book otherwise a Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Copy Three.

1st printing. A nice, solid, firmly bound book with hardly any wear in a fine DJ. Pages show signs of the typical age-related darkening.

688 pages. Ex-Library. Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear, but still a presentable copy.

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(First Edition, First Printing) Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

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. Foxing to the pages

1st Edition, Hardcover, d/j has very light shelf wear, o/w, v/g, v/g. This is a thick book.

8vo. Quarter purple paper, blue paper boards. xiv, 671 pp., [16] pp. photos in colour and B&W. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, else fine. Clive Barker: a modern mythmaker, explorer of our darkest instincts and ultimate fears, the writer who - more than any other contemporary figure - has shaped our nightmares through diverse media.

First UK Edition. Straight, secure spine. Clean interiors.

A square solid tight clean un-read copy. The priced jacket has some light rubbing. The edges of the text block have tanned as pretty much normal for this title. 163 pages of notes, index, bibliography. Many photos. A very nice copy. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY.

First Edition. A hardback First Edition in Very Good condition, in a similar dustjacket. Already becoming scarce. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illustrations vary, and unless the image accompanying the listing is marked 'Bookseller Image', it is an Abebooks Stock Image, NOT our own). BUYERS OUTSIDE UK please also note the following: 1. shipping rates apply to packets of 750g and under, and should the packed weight of an item exceed this we reserve the right to ship via 'Economy', or request extra postage prior to fulfilling the order, or cancel 2. many countries apply import or other taxes - these are the buyers responsibility; we may ask for extra payment to cover any taxes which we have to pay 'up front' on the buyer's behalf.

Signed. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author. First printing with full number line.

In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

First Printing (full # line) of the UK edition (issued a year before the US edition) in original £17.99-priced dust wrapper SIGNED by author Douglas Winter, by Clive Barker and by David Armstrong (Barker's then-husband) direct to title page without inscriptions, no markings, binding tight pages clean & corners sharp, the pages are toned as is typical for this title, else Fine unread triple-signed copy (dj in mylar protector); lg thick 8vo; (xiv) 671pp indexed & illus

© 2001: The authorized biography of Clive Barker. 1st edition, 1st printing:- Synopsis: Clive Barker: a contemporary myth-maker, explorer of our darkest instincts and ultimate fears - the writer who, more than any other contemporary figure, has shaped our nightmares through diverse media. Novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, artist and director, he is a master at twisting the mundane to make it fantastic, frightening and ultimately meaningful. Douglas E Winter's detailed and highly literate biography, made possible by unprecedented access to Barker and his closest friends and family, offers readers a privileged insight into Barker's own story: his Liverpool childhood and adolescence, his forays into the world of theatre, mime and direction; his meteoric rise to fame as the author of 'The Books Of Blood' and 'Weaveworld', and the director of 'Hellraiser'; his move to Hollywood to pursue a film career and his growth as an artist in many different media, which has taken him from theatre - the first form of human expression - into the digital age. Interwoven with this revealing and personal journey into Barker's life is a grand tour through all of his fiction and film, from his earliest unpublished work - including the short story, 'The Wood On The Hill', which is published here for the first time - up to 'Coldheart Canyon' and beyond, giving a tantalising glimpse of things to come. 'Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic' unlocks the beating heart of a polymath, a creator, a true artist, and reveals at last a man with one of the twentieth century's most phenomenal imaginations, and the vision to lead us on many strange and fabulous journeys in the years ahead:- Review(s): "Douglas E Winter gives us an affecting portrait of a remarkably self-aware young artist-in-the-making. Through his biographer's close reading, exhaustive research, and imaginative insight, Clive Barker emerges from 'The Dark Fantastic' as an extravagantly gifted and courageous man and writer" - Peter Straub / "To call Clive Barker 'a horror novelist' would be like calling The Beatles 'a garage band'. Always creating and always pushing into the furthest reaches of the human mind, he is an artist in every sense of the word. He is the great imaginer of our time. He not only knows our deepest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful. These are the only words we can use to describe Clive Barker until we invent new, more fitting, adjectives" - Quentin Tarantino:- (original cost £17.99).

First UK edition hardcover signed/dated/inscribed to the title page by Winter AND Barker. Spine ends softened, textblock slightly toned else tight and square. The DJ in mylar is fine. ; 159 X 46 X 240 millimeter; 671 pages; Signed by Author