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Real-Time World: Available Copies

150 S. Einband etw. berieben u. bestaubt, Kanten etw. bestoßen L028 9783442231652 *.* Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 210

158pp - covers rubbed and soiled - slight wear and chipping to cover edges and hinges - edges of text block foxed/soiled - minor lean to creased spine - SCARCE 1st thus

158pp - covers slightly rubbed and soiled with crease to lower corner of front cover - slight wear and chipping to cover edges and hinges - edges of text block lightly foxed - minor crease to spine

Slight reading crease along spine.

Book in overall good condition. Minimal shelf wear to edges, corners, and spine. See images.

UK first edition hardcover of Real-Time World by Christopher Priest, published in 1974 by New English Library. Priest's first published short story collection, gathering his early genre fiction including "The Head and the Hand" and the title story, both frequently anthologised. The original NEL edition has become genuinely scarce. This copy is a former school library copy, retained with its original dust jacket in very good condition featuring cover art signed "Achilleos.". Jacket has some light fading on the spine, and age edges inside otherwise in very good condition. Condition: the boards are sound, with the gilt vignette and spine titling still bright and clear, though there is adhesive/sticker residue to the boards from where the library hard covered the jacket, this covering kept the jacket in very good condition. Institutional stamps appear to the title page and p.158, with a pencilled accession number to the front pastedown. The endpapers show noticeable foxing, and the text is age-toned throughout, typical of the cheap stock NEL used on its 1970s SF titles, but complete and unmarked beyond the library stamps noted. The binding remains tight. The dust jacket is complete and unclipped, retained in a protective sleeve. Sold and priced to reflect the library history and board condition. A good copy for Priest collectors and completists given the real scarcity of this title.

First edition, first printing. Text is unmarked, though the pages are yellowed and the page edges are age toned. Binding is sturdy. Dust jacket is lightly worn around the edges.

158 p. 21 cm. Blue cloth in pictorial dustjacket. Front flap price clipped. Ink stamp on front endpaper. Some pages browning. The author himself wrote the introduction to his first short-story collection, explaining that most of these tales are "about the effects of stress on people." Some characters question their reality, another self-mutilates as entertainment, while others live in a city under seige. Great amusement in bite-sized chunks.

First UK Edition. Publisher's blue board with gilt vignette to the front board and gilt lettering to the spine. Pale- turquoise end-papers. Slight browning of pages from age; slight hint of edge dusting (not on face of pages); slight bumping at the head and tail of the spine and at the bottom left hand corner of the front board; overall a VG+ copy. The dustwrapper is complete with just the merest hint of corner edge creasing. A nice copy. Photographs/scans available upon request.

First UK Edition in dustwrapper priced £2.25 to the inside flap. Publisher's blue boards with gilt spine lettering with gilt vignette to the front board. Pale blue end-papers. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE TITLE PAGE: "To Andrew/ With every best wish/ Chris Priest/ January 1977". From the estate of Andrew M. Stephenson (1946-2025), science fiction author and illustrator (who usually signed his artwork "Ames"). Boards exceptionally bright and clean. A couple of minor bumps to the boards otherwise a near fine copy in like dustwrapper. Hardly any age toning and quite scarce thus. Rare, inscribed with these attributes. Further photographs available upon request.

First UK edition hardcover inscribed to the title page by Priest. Textblock slightly toned else fine condition in like DJ in mylar. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 158 pages; Signed by Author

Short story collection. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND COVER ARTIST CHRIS ACHILLEOS ON TITLE PAGE. Signed by Achilleos at LonCon 3, London 2014., Fine copy in a fine (colour wraparound, bright and unfaded) dustjacket (as new) but for a litle browning along the page edges and a touch of edge wear.

First UK Edition. Publisher's blue board with gilt vignette to the front board and gilt lettering to the spine. Pale- turquoise end-papers. Pages slightly toned due to the poor quality of paper used otherwise a fine copy in like dustwrapper. Rare and exceedingly uncommon in this condition. Photographs/scans available upon request.