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The Children of Men
by James, P D
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG+/ND
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About This Item
QDP, 1992-01-01. First Edition Thus, 1st. Imp. FNL.. Paperback. VG/VG+/ND. 16.8 x 10.7 x 2.5 cm. Box X21 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. full number line.* Date of Publication: 1992 * Publisher: QPD Direct.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers with woodland and inset of doll laying on cobbles. No bumps, minor rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, considerable browning to page margins & edges. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 239 pp. text. x pp. blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- In this astonishing novel, an entirely new development in her writing, P.D.James imagines a future England where human infertility has spread like a plague. By the year 2021 no babies have been born for a quarter of a century, not since Year Omega, not in the inhabited world. The very old are being driven to despair and suicide, and the final generation of the young are beautiful but violent and cruel. The middle age are trying to sustain normality under the absolute rule of Xan Lyppiatt the charismatic dictator and Warden of England.* This is a VG copy of the 1st./1st. thus fnl with minimal shelf wear & some ageing.*
Synopsis
P. D. James is the author of nineteen books, most of which have been filmed and broadcast on television in the United States and other countries. She spent thirty years in various departments of the British Civil Service, including the Police and Criminal Law Departments of Great Britain’s Home Office. She has served as a magistrate and as a governor of the BBC. In 2000 she celebrated her eightieth birthday and published her autobiography, Time to Be in Earnest . The recipient of many prizes and honors, she was created Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991. She lives in London and Oxford.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 588
- Title
- The Children of Men
- Author
- James, P D
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG+/ND
- Edition
- First Edition Thus, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- Publisher
- QDP
- Date Published
- 1992-01-01
- Pages
- 249
- Size
- 16.8 x 10.7 x 2.5 cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime, Thrillers & Mystery;
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