A signed and pre-publication dated 1st edition, exclusively in conjunction with Goldsboro, of the latest work of non-fiction from multi-award winning author, short-story writer, critic and political activist China Mieville.




'A Spectre, Haunting : On The Communist Manifesto ' published by Head of Zeus in London on 12 May 2022, 1st edition, standard modern hardback, [x] + 310 pages.




Flat hand signed by the author at the title page.  He has also dated the book at 10 May 2022, this being 2 days before the official publication date.


In fine unread condition, red & black stencil lettering to the fore-edge of the text block, which was only available on this exclusive edition released via Goldsboro Books, dustjacket housed in a removable protective plastic sleeve.






China Miéville's brilliant reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document : The Communist Manifesto.






In 1848, a strange political tract was published by two German émigrés.  Marx and Engel's apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system, which penetrates every corner of the globe, reduces every relationship to that of profit, and bursts asunder the old forms of production and of politics, remains a picture of our world.  And the vampiric energy of that system is once again highly contentious.  The Manifesto shows no sign of fading into antiquarian obscurity, and remains a key touchstone for modern political debate.




China Miéville is not a writer hemmed in by conventions of disciplinary boundaries or genre, and this is a strikingly imaginative take on Marx and what his most haunting book has to say to us today.  Like the Manifesto itself, this is a book haunted by ghosts, sorcery and creative destruction.











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