Ashton Rare Books

Modern First Editions

30 Glebe Road, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 8AH, UK
Telephone: +44(0)7958 570305 · Email: les@ashtonrarebooks.com

  • Home
  • Subjects
    • Booker Prize
    • Childrens Fiction
    • Cookery
    • Fiction
    • Iconic Titles
    • Illustrated
    • John Minton
    • Non Fiction
    • Philip Pullman
    • Plays
    • Poetry
    • Private Press
    • Seamus Heaney
    • Short Stories
    • Signed Titles
    • Travel
    • World War 1 Related
    • World War 2 Related
  • Keywords
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Advanced Search
  • Sell your books
  • Recent Acquisitions

BANKS, Iain M. ~ Against a Dark Background. A Science Fiction Novel. Signed and dated in the year of publication.

FIRST UK PRINTING. Orbit, London: 1993.

Large 8vo., black boards lettered in silver to spine with Orbit device to foot; black endpapers; in the vibrant unclipped pictorial dustwrapper (£15.99 to front flap) featuring a futuristic wraparound scene; THE BOOK slightly bumped at spine tips, else fine; THE WRAPPER ever-so-slightly sunned to the backstrip, near-fine. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. FIRST UK EDITION. This copy signed by the author in blue biro to the title page, and dated 27. 5. 93.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine
JACKET: Near Fine

£275

Enquire about this
Keywords:


    aba aba

    All prices on the website are inclusive of recorded and special delivery postage within the UK, as well as Worldwide.

    aba
    PayPal Acceptance Mark
    30 Glebe Road,
    Market Harborough,
    Leicestershire, LE16 8AH,
    UK
    T:+44(0)7958 570305
    Our Terms of Sale : Privacy, Security, Taxes And Duties Policy

    Copyright © 2026 · Florence Studios