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In the original dust wrapper, near fine, with only light wear to the extremities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShōgun is one of the defining popular novels of the twentieth century, and the work that brought feudal Japan to a vast Western readership. Set in 1600 at the moment of Japan's bloody struggle for succession, it follows the English navigator John Blackthorne as he is drawn deep into a world of warring samurai lords, rigid codes of honour, and cultural collision at every turn. Clavell's epic scale, his immersive detail, and his sympathetic rendering of Japanese society gave the novel an authority and ambition rare in popular fiction of its era. It became a phenomenon, a bestseller of enormous reach and later a landmark television adaptation, yet the novel itself rewards reading as serious historical fiction, attentive to the textures of power, loyalty, and cultural encounter. First British editions in this condition are increasingly scarce.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47893705621556,"sku":null,"price":1000.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/4AD2E405-9F78-490B-B299-5AEDA64121F8_1_201_a.jpg?v=1781171761"},{"product_id":"gabriel-garcia-marquez-story-of-a-ship-wrecked-sailor-uk-1st-edition-1986","title":"GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, UK First Edition (1986)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon : Jonathan Cape, 1986.\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition in English.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo, original boards in illustrated dust jacket (jacket generally very good for the date, no cuts, tears, or fading; not price-clipped, though a price sticker has evidently been removed); pp. 106; translated from the Spanish by Randolph Hogan. Boards square, binding firm; internally clean and unmarked, with no foxing to text block or edges, pages toned with age as expected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first English-language edition of García Márquez's celebrated work of reporting\u003c\/strong\u003e, telling the true story of Luis Alejandro Velasco, who drifted for ten days without food or water after being swept overboard from a Colombian Navy destroyer in the Caribbean in 1955.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe account first appeared as a fourteen-part serial in\u003cem\u003eEl Espectador\u003c\/em\u003ein 1955, written by García Márquez as a young staff reporter. Velasco's true version of events, starkly at odds with the government's official account which caused a sensation, embarrassed the Pinilla dictatorship, and contributed to the eventual closure of the newspaper. García Márquez himself was reluctant to have the piece attributed to him for years afterward, and it was not published in book form in Spanish until 1970, once his international fame as the author of\u003cem\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/em\u003emade suppression impossible. This Jonathan Cape edition, translated by Randolph Hogan, was the story's first appearance in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA very good, clean copy of an important early work by a Nobel laureate author.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48108661899316,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/4461BC41-0712-4787-8FB2-4DFCB22D60B9_1_105_c.jpg?v=1786107308"},{"product_id":"christie-agatha-halloween-party-uk-first-edition-1969","title":"CHRISTIE, Agatha, Hallowe'en Party, UK First Edition (1969)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHRISTIE, Agatha\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHallowe'en Party\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eLondon : Collins, The Crime Club, 1969. First edition (preceding the Dodd, Mead U.S. edition of the same year).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo (21 x 14cm) original red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the Crime Club \"man with pistol\" device gilt-stamped at the foot; in the original pictorial dust jacket; pp. 255; dedicated by Christie \"To P. 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