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SELF**, WILL: : My Idea of Fun. ** [UK,Uncorrected Book Proof.]

LONDON.BLOOMSBURY,1993.

ISBN 0747515913.

UK,8vo wraps,Uncorrected Book Proof. [Publication date September 1993. Often of limited availability,the text of a forthcoming book,is printed and bound in softcovers for use by the author,editors,proofreaders and some favoured reviewers.For undecorated printed wraps,with minimal publication data imprinted - the produced/released number of copies would almost certainly be less than 500,and most probably would tend to be around 200 copies.For glossy pictorial illustrated wrappers,produced numbers are often higher than 200,but either have a scarcity to them. Often errors or earlier versions of text appear in these proofs.Versions where the text has changed considerably are obviously considered more desirable by their nature.] FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from card cover.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,colour pictorial illustrated card covers with author's blacklettered name to a narrow red band/strip at front's top edge,red-lettered title and capitalised,black-lettered UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF aand publisher name to a narrow white band/strip to front's lower edge and colour illustration between the two bands. Spine/backstrip with horizontal red strips at head+foot with black-lettered title and publisher's white illustrated colophon to same respectively,a white central strip with author's red-lettered name,and reading crease-free but with production vertical wrinkles of glue either degrading or drying and shrinking causing said wrinkles.Paperbacks using the 'perfect binding' method (signatures glued to spine) are prone to this.Neglgible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges with age-acquired ageing/toning with a couple of small blemishes,fore-edges also aged/toned but without any foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight and clean - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread other than my own collation.UK, Uncorrected Book Proof,3-311pp [paginated] includes Book One: The First Person with a Prologue and Intermission and 5 chapters; Book Two: The Third Person - 5 chapters and an Epilogue and a Note on the Author; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,a Contents list/table and individual Book's separator pages and chapter separator pages too.             Want other PROOF copies? Please search my MODERN FIRSTS, MODERN FIRSTS2, CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED, BIOGRAPHY, SIGNED, NAVAL/MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY catalogues for examples. Visually the exterior appearance is still exceptional  and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 30+ year-old age and nature, i.e  an ephemeral paperback Proof.It is only the minimal faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading overall.Despite that,it really is still an exceptional example for its cleanliness and lack of other associated detracting faults for a decades old paperback.                           Author's debut novel.   The story of a devilishly clever international financier/marketing wizard and his young apprentice, 'My Idea of Fun' is both a frighteningly dark subterranean exploration of capitalism run rampant and a wickedly sharp, technically acute display of linguistic pyrotechnics that glows with pure white-hot brilliance.                                      Ian Wharton is a very ordinary young man until he is taken under the wing of a gentleman known variously as Mr. Broadhurst, Samuel Northcliff, and finally and conclusively simply as the Fat Controller. Loud-mouthed,impeccably tailored,a fount of bombastic erudition,the Fat Controller initiates Ian into the dark secrets of his arts - of marketing,money,and the human psyche - and takes Ian,and the reader,on a wild voyage around the edges of reality. Please contact seller,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE.  ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **                         

UK,8vo wraps,Uncorrected Book Proof.
Not SIGNED.

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