Boyd Martin (491 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Released in 1952 to wide acclaim, The Cardboard Crown was the first novel in The Langton Tetralogy; the work for which Boyd is best known. Set in Australia and England at the turn of the twentieth century, Boyd presents an unforgettable portrait of an upper middle-class family who love both countries but are not quite at home in either. At the centre of this immensely readable novel is Alice Verso, whose dynasty-founding marriage masks the inner turmoil she faces surrounding the promise of love in distant Rome, only to be discovered generations later.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. ex library, standard library stamps, check out tab, reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 439 pages; corners bumped, edge wear to boards, light soiling to page ends, some uneven sunning to cloth.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Staple bound. 80 pages. Cover has edge wear, scuffs, minor creases, rubbed corners/spine, very slightly chipped, very slightly soiled. Minor yellowing at edge. No writing. Very good. Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. 546 pp. The cover edges are rubbed, and there are two stress creases in the spine. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Condition very good in blue cloth boards, red lettering front and spine, no DJ, no markings, very clean and tight.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. At the outbreak of World War I, Dominic Langton leaves his wife on a remote sheep farm in New South Wales to enlist in the British Army. What he experiences in the trenches changes him forever; his return home sees him cast off his past and find his own integrity. He has seen the true nature of war-the senseless waste of life, the millions of young men condemned to pointless slaughter-and has emerged a wiser, but troubled, man.When Blackbirds Singis a masterful recreation of the vanished world of 1914, and a moving and powerful testament to the devastation of war. In this final instalment of Martin Boyd's celebrated Langton Quartet, Boyd confirms his reputation as one of the most outstanding novelists Australia has ever produced. A masterful recreation of the vanished world of 1914, and a moving and powerful testament to the devastation of war. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1948 E. P. Dutton hardcover, light cover wear, fading on blue cloth cover, name inside, tight binding, clean text Prompt, reliable service, shipped next business day. Int'l mailed via first class or priority.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Vol. 5, No. 8. Edited by George H. Scithers. Cover art by David Mattingly for "Slac//" by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. Includes "Editorial: The Influence of Science Fiction" by Isaac Asimov; "On Books" by Baird Searles; "Sea Changling" by Mildred Downey Broxon; "Basic Genesis" by Barry B. Longyear, Jerry Pournelle, Ezekial, & Wang 5/1; "The Balls of Aleph-Null Inn" by Martin Gardner; "Interlude in a Laboratory" by Steve Rasnic Tem; "Conversion" by Bob Shaw; "The SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. Strauss; "Magic, The Sea, & Our Conference in Avernus" by J. P. Boyd; "Highest Honor" by Hank Simpson; "Away From It All" by Joanne Mitchell; "The Dust" by Somtow Sucharitkul; "Improbable Bestiary: The Genie in teh Lamp" by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre; "Dinosaur Weather" by Dona Vaughn; "Letters" Illustrated by Artifact, Stephen Fabian, Tim Kirk, George Barr, Karl B. Kofoed, Dave Mattingly and others.Label mostly remains on front; rubbing; tanning; minor creasing; dents to front. Book. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Introduced bySonya HartnettWinner, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1956Nearly everyone between the ages of eighteen and thirty turns against his family and wants to escape from it. When he is sixty he wants to creep back to the nursery fireside, but it is no longer there.Handsome, proud, reprehensible, misunderstood. Dominic Langton is the dark heart of A Difficult Young Man. His brother Guy can scarcely understand where he fits into the pattern of things or what he might do next. Martin Boyd's much loved novel is an elegant, witty and compelling family tale about the contradictions of growing up. A Difficult Young Man (1955) charts the complex personal relationships in an upper middle class Anglo-Australian family. It won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1956 Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Our minds are like those maps at the entrance to the Metro stations in Paris. They are full ofunilluminated directions. But when we know where we want to go and press the right button, theroute is illuminated before us in electric clarity.Diana von Flugel warned her husband: a piece of toast that hard could break a tooth. WhenDiana goes to Melbourne to have the tooth fixed, Wolfie is far too concerned with findinginspiration for his musical compositions to realise the chain of events he has just set in motion.On Collins Street, Russell Lockwood catches a glimpse of his childhood friend and knows atonce that she is a rare woman.Now Diana and Wolfie's marriage is under threat, the Great War is approaching, and no one quiteknows where their hearts belong. First published in 1957, the third novel in Martin Boyd'scelebrated Langton Quartet is a beguiling comedy of manners about the outbreak of love ininconvenient places.This edition of Outbreak of Love comes with an introduction by Chris Womersley. The story of a marriage under threat, it is a comedy of manners which carries an undercurrent of unease, reflecting the contrasting issues of approaching war and the personal conflict between the head and the heart. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Reprint.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Introduced by Brenda NiallThis remarkable novel, first published to a chorus of acclaim in 1952, is one of the lost classics of Australian literature. Martin Boyd is a deeply humane novelist, a writer of family sagas without peer. Set in Australia and England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, The Cardboard Crown presents an unforgettable portrait of an upper middle-class family who love both countries but are not quite at home in either.At the centre of this scintillating and immensely readable novel is Alice Verso, whose unexpected marriage to Austin Langton not only brings financial stability to the Langtons but founds an Anglo-Australian dynasty. But when her grandson finds her diaries and begins to uncover her story he chances on an intricate web of deception and reveals the complex fate of his family over three generations.Features an introduction by one of Australia's best-known and award-winning biographers, Brenda Niall. A lost classic of Australian literature. Boyd is a deeply humane novelist, a writer of family sagas without peer. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Jacket is in pieces, spinecover missing. Cover clean and scuffed, has white spotting, and rubbing. Pages clean and tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. The jacket is extensively torn and is falling apart. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is very loose. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Jacket is scuffed with edgewear. Previous owner bookplate. Boards have shelfwear. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. All pages secure in binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Libris.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Gray cloth, green tape on spine, rubbed and spotted, no dj, ex-lib. Novel; 23228.