Clézio Watson Taylor Simon (7 results)

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: nrVG DW. 1st Edition. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age. DW (priced £5.95 net) has some edge wear.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: nrFine Pc DW. 1st Edition. Looks unread and has slightest shelf wear. DW is price clipped. In loose polythene protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition UK. Rare first UK edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Pre-Nobel English-language publication for Le Clézio, translated from the French by Simon Watson Taylor. Jacket edges are slightly creased and nicked. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. 319 pp Both book and dust jacket are in very good condition. The jacket is a little edge worn with 2 small closed tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition, first printing. Fine in a fine wraparound illustrated dust jacket. Originally published in France under the title LA GUERRE. The Franco-Mauritian novelist is the author of over 40 works and the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.

First American edition. First American edition. 288 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slight sunning to spine panel, light wear. The French Nobel laureate's fifth novel, first published in French in 1970.

First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; pink topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-288pp. Signed by the author on the title page, dated 2007. Pink topstain very slightly dulled, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $6.95), showing light wear to spine ends and corners; Near Fine, without the usual fading to the spine. The French Nobel Prize-winner's fifth novel, originally published as La Guerre in 1970. "In War, he has a young female heroine, Bea B., wander through a maze of peace, war and the mess of modern cities. As we read Bea B.'s wonderful wide-eyed internal babble and her scraps of poetry, jottings and letters in a diary she carries in her air-travel tote bag, Bea B. becomes the perfect foil for the modern apocalypse she stumbles through.as Bea B. wanders through a territory that is presumably Vietnam and permanent legacy of ten thousand years of war at the same time she is emotionally walking through France and Europe" (Solomon, Barbara. "Only the words intact." The New York Times, July 15, 1973). 86024.