Empire Of the Sun

Simon & Schuster, New York, 1984. First edition. Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket has chipping at top spine edge. Presumed first edition but there is no numbering line at all and no mention of edition or printing.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1984. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Wrappers. Slight curling with some toning else very good. Signed by the author. Basis for the 1987 film starring Christian Bale, John Malkovich and Miranda Richardson.

New York: Simon & Schuster. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1984. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0671530518 . Remainder mark. Some minor wear to dustjacket. Now protected in a clear mylar cover. ; Full number line. ; Remainder .

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1984. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pps.278. Publisher's cloth in dust-wrapper. First issue jacket with quotes by Graham Greene and Angela Carter to the rear panel. Quite heavy toning to text block. Jacket very slightly sunned to spine, with some light wear to edges. Very good. Shortlisted for 1984 Booker… Read more about this item

NY: HarperCollins, 1984. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1984 Simon & Schuster FIRST edition of Ballard's memoir made into the underrated epic directed by Steven Spielberg. This book is in VG+/VG condition. The HB is very clean and unmarked with only a remainder mark & owner signature. The DJ is not price-clipped and there are… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1984. First. Near Fine/Near Fine. Empire of the Sun, by English writer J G Ballard was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Like Ballard's earlier short story "The Dead Time" (published in the anthology Myths of the Near Future), it is essentially fiction but draws… Read more about this item

Grafton, UK, 1988. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 351 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Grafton, UK, 1988. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Pages are reasonably tanned. Foxing to top edge of pages. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The heartrending story of a… Read more about this item

Paperback. Acceptable.

London: Grafton. Creased and marked cover. Marginalia. . Fair. Soft cover. 1990.

Condition: Near fine, very slight spine wear and top edge creases. Advance uncorrected proof which has some proofing marks on several pages margins so it seems this might have been a slightly later copy of the proof. J.G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical tale of World War 2 and it's effects on a young boy in Shanghai. Made into a film directed by Steven… Read more about this item

Grafton Books. Very Good-. 1989. (Film/TV tie-in). Paperback. 0586064303 . (edges "tanned" & light reading creases) (John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson) (Dir. Steven Spielberg) (reprint with film credits on back cover) .

London: Victor Gollancz LTD, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. 8vo. [10], 3-278, [2] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated by a full-page map. In the first state dust jacket (FIRSTS, October 2010, 30). A sharp copy of Ballard's harrowing novel based on his experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of China… Read more about this item

Hardback. Very Good.

Grafton Books. Good. 1989. (Film/TV tie-in). Paperback. 0586064303 . (spine heavily "sunned" - text unaffected) (edges "tanned" & reading creases) (good reading copy only) (John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson) (Dir. Steven Spielberg) (reprint with film credits on back cover) .

NY, Simon and Schuster, 1984, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. A novel of boyhood experiences in China on the eve of Pearl Harbor, source for the Stephen Spielberg film. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else fine, unread.

First UK Edition/First Printing; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, with only light foxing to the page edges (common for the title). An outstanding copy of this classic novel by the author of "The Drowned World", "Crash", and "High Rise" among others; scarce in this condition. This novel based on Ballard's experiences when interned at Shanghai from 1942-45… Read more about this item

London: Book Club Associates, 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Fine. A very bright neat copy in publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to spine, 291 pages. Light spotting to edges, very faint offsetting to free endpapers, all else fine. A young boy has to fend for himself when the Japanese invade Shanghai. A lovely copy. Listing with Biblio since 2005,… Read more about this item

UNCORRECTED PROOF the first edition (American) in yellow paperback wraps. Fine.

Victor Gollancz, 1984. ~With loose signed letter from author. Dustwrapper unfaded and unclipped. Page edges slightly browned. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable, others on request.. Signed by Author. 1st edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good+. 278pp. With dustwrapper. Owner's signature. Binding sound, text unmarked.

London: Gollancz, 1984. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. # 8 of a SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of 100 COPIES. Publisher's black boards with gilt spine lettering and red end-papers and Japanese flag embossed on the front board. Red top edge. A fine copy (with the usual slightly toned page edges due to the poor… Read more about this item