Bates Pritchett V S (12 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Helen Byers; (illustrator). Second Printing. (xxiii) 399 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with faint creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Helen Byers. This anthology contains: Leaving the Yellow House by Saul Bellow; The Dust of Yuri Serafimovich by James Fetler; Gunnar's Sword by Carol Bly; A Theory of Knowledge by Joyce Carol Oates; Dreamers in a Dead Language by Grace Paley; The World of Apples by John Cheever; In Retirement by Bernard Malamud; The Angel of Mercy by Warren Adler; The Three-mile Hill Is Five Miles Long by Daniel Menaker; Old-Age Pensioners by Frank O'Connor; The Blessington Method by Stanley Ellin; At the Anarchists' Convention by John Sayles; Tea with Mrs Bittell by V. S. Pritchett; The Soft Core by Arturo Vivante; A Ceremony of Innocence by Arthenia J. Bates; After the Denim by Raymond Carver; The Middle Drawer by Hortense Calisher; Enemies by Nadine Gordimer; Suttee by Louis Auchincloss; Dr Cahn's Visit by Richard Stern; Sleep It Off Lady by Jean Rhys; The Resurrection Man by Wallace E. Knight; and Mr Arcularis by Conrad Aiken. Size: 8vo. Book.

First edition in publisher's original new format single colour card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 4¾''. Illustrated. Includes short stories by H. E. Bates 'Captain Poop Deck's Paradise'; Jack Cope 'Ekaterina'; Ray Bradbury 'Come Into My Cellar'; Arthur C. Clarke 'Ape About the House'; Joan Aiken 'Lodging for the Night'; V. S. Pritchett 'Noisy in the Doghouse'. Minor rubbing of the card covering to the spine ends and in Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other Argosy Short Story Magazine titles. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

First edition in publisher's original colour card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 4¾''. Includes short stories by H. E. Bates 'The Day of the Tortoise'; V. S. Pritchett 'Stage Fall'; Joan Aiken 'Honeymaroon'; Edmund Gilligan 'Sea Bride'; Youngman Carter 'Dead Ringer'; Ray Bradbury 'Drummer Boy of Shiloh'. Minor rubbing of the paper to the spine ends and in Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other Argosy Short Story Magazine titles. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

First edition in publisher's original colour card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 4¾''. Includes short stories by H. E. Bates 'The Day of the Tortoise'; V. S. Pritchett 'Stage Fall'; Joan Aiken 'Honeymaroon'; Edmund Gilligan 'Sea Bride'; Youngman Carter 'Dead Ringer'; Ray Bradbury 'Drummer Boy of Shiloh'. Minor rubbing of the paper to the spine ends and in Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other Argosy Short Story Magazine titles. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

First edition in publisher's original colour card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 4¾''. Includes short stories by H. E. Bates 'The Day of the Tortoise'; V. S. Pritchett 'Stage Fall'; Joan Aiken 'Honeymaroon'; Edmund Gilligan 'Sea Bride'; Youngman Carter 'Dead Ringer'; Ray Bradbury 'Drummer Boy of Shiloh'. Minor rubbing of the paper to the spine ends and in Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other Argosy Short Story Magazine titles. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

First edition in publisher's original colour card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 4¾''. Includes short stories by H. E. Bates 'The Day of the Tortoise'; V. S. Pritchett 'Stage Fall'; Joan Aiken 'Honeymaroon'; Edmund Gilligan 'Sea Bride'; Youngman Carter 'Dead Ringer'; Ray Bradbury 'Drummer Boy of Shiloh'. Minor rubbing of the paper to the spine ends and in Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other Argosy Short Story Magazine titles. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

First edition in publisher's original new format single colour card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 4¾''. Illustrated. Includes short stories by H. E. Bates 'Captain Poop Deck's Paradise'; Jack Cope 'Ekaterina'; Ray Bradbury 'Come Into My Cellar'; Arthur C. Clarke 'Ape About the House'; Joan Aiken 'Lodging for the Night'; V. S. Pritchett 'Noisy in the Doghouse'. Minor rubbing of the card covering to the spine ends and in Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other Argosy Short Story Magazine titles. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATES, H. E. (1906-1974).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. No Dust Jacket. Agnes Miller Parker, Wood Engravings (illustrator). Reprint. Very good to inside with no inscriptions. The endpapers are illustrated. The boards are orange only very slight wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. With a preface by V.S. Pritchett. ***Near fine in sea-green cloth-covered boards with black titles on the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked, having been protected by the dustwrapper since 1936. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Extremities just slightly rubbed. No bumps. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions, but with an attractive bookplate "Anthony John Poucher" on the front free endpaper, and a very small bookseller's label "B. H. Blackwell Ltd., Oxford" on the front pastedown. Some offsetting to the endpapers, but no internal foxing. Pages clean. Paper stock slightly tanned with age. No creases or tears. ***In a very good original printed dustwrapper, which has been neatly corner price clipped. The dustwrapper is complete with no loss, and no creases or tears. There is some browning to the spine and a little browning to the edges. ***293 pages. 214mm x 144 mm. ***Contents: Introduction by Derek Verschoyle, Geoffrey Chaucer by Frederic Prokosch, Sir Thomas Mallory by Louis MacNeice, John Lyly and Sir Philip Sidney by Rose Macaulay, Daniel Defoe by V. S. Pritchett, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Tobias Smollett by David Garnett, Laurence Sterne by A. Calder-Marshall, Jane Austen by Elizabeth Bowen, Sir Walter Scott by Edwin Muir, Thomas Love Peacock by Henry Romily Fedden, Charles Dickens and W. M. Thackeray by Sean O'Faoliin, Charlotte, Anne and Emily Bronte by E. F. Benson, Anthony Trollope by L. A. Pavey, George Meredith by Bonamy Dobree, Samuel Butler by Catherine Carswell, Henry James by Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad by H. E. Bates, D. H. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley by Peter Quennell, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf by E. B. C. Jones, James Joyce by L. A. G. Strong. ***'There are so many books about the English Novel already in existence that an addition to their number may seem to call for an explanation. We are confident that this book is justified by its unusual aim and method, which distinguish it from any previous volume. It differs in aim, because Mr. Verschoyle has not compiled just another catalogue of the achievements of English novelists, major and minor, through the five centuries during which English novels have been written, but has attempted to trace the development of the English novel, from its primitive origins to its contemporary complexity, in terms of the contributions of its twenty-five most important exponents - the book, in fact, provides a bird's-eye view of the novel's progress. It differs in method, because it is not the work of a single writer but of twenty of the most distinguished of contemporary novelists, each of whom provides a chapter in judgment on a great predecessor.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***A really nice example of this anthology, with contributions from many of the significant literary writers of the inter-war period, including Graham Greene. Very hard to find now in the original complete dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. "Mildew" a story by Essex Brooke / Ronlad Fraser "Impressions of South America" / Hector Bolitho "Beverley Nichols Grows Older" / Humbert Wolfe "Ronald Fraser" / V S Pritchett "Tiger Juan" / Pauline Smith "'A.B.'" / a story by H E Bates "The Gleaner" / Margaret Wilson "Ann Vickers" / Basil Lubbock "An Appreciation of Ship Ashore" / H E Wortham "The Case of Ivar Kreuger" / George Bernard Shaw on "Gene Tunney" / Philip Gibbs "The Open Door" Malcolm Elwin "The Realism of George Moore" / Edward Hoyle "A Parcel of Four" (U.P.).

First Edition. Literary essays concerning Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Daniel Defoe and others by the likes of Graham Greene, Edwin Muir, etc. Near Fine, some very light foxing to preliminaries, in Very Good dustjacket, some wear and soiling.