Edited Brittain (32 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 47120535. 1788880998. 9/8/2026 3:23:18 PM.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 317 Pages, Cover A Bit Worn From Handling O/W Sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stated First U.S. Edition. First American Edition (so stated) in original unclipped dust jacket. Black boards with black cloth spine (slight fading to board edges); gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated with photographs, map. Foreword by Clare Leighton. 382 pages with Index. Dust jacket is clean, not price clipped, chip at top spine edge, several short closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The revealing journal upon whic hthe PBS production Testament of Youth was based. An intimate and moving record of a generation ravaged by World War I, beautifully written by a woman who served as a nurse and lost her husband, her brother, and many friends to the war. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition. Fading to the lower shelf edge, else near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A significant literary work, autobiography and memoir of Brittain's early life, a detailed account of her time as a nurse in WWI, and her turn to feminism, pacifism, and activist for world peace. The revealing journal upon which the PBS production Testament of Youth was based. Octavo. 382 pages; Notes, Chronology, and Index. Illustrated with plates, portraits and a map.…

Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Includes all eleven of the "Man Who Read" stories, seven Mr. Strang stories, and a checklist of Brittain's mystery writings. First paperback printing. Fine, as new condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Bright silver titles on orange boards with areas of fade where DJ was chipped.Tight, solid, clean copy. DJ has wear to spine but kept together with mylar. Solid reading copy. TM.

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Very Good-Near Fine. First Edition. 1st paperback edition , January 2022, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Includes a William Brittain checklist. " This is Crippen & Landru's second collection by William Brittain. The first (The Man Who Read Mysteries) included all of the "Man Who Read." stories and a few stories about the logical and deductive science teacher, Mr. Strang. Our second collection (of a planned three volumes) contains the rest of the Mr. Strang stories, all 25 of them. The collection has an introduction by Josh Pachter (as did the first collection) and an afterword by one of the Brittain children. William Brittain continues to be one of our best-selling and fan favorite authors." -- Publisher. Cross, Gail (illustrator). Book.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: New. First Edition. 1st paperback printing, November 2018. Here are all eleven of his "Man Who Read" stories and seven of the Mr. Strangs. Includes a checklist of Brittain's mystery writings. It s been worth the wait. One of the authors most requested by Crippen & Landru readers throughout its 25-year history has been mystery writer William Brittain, whose fiction challenges the reader with tricky plots presented in a unique style. For the first time, all of the popular Man Who Read stories and a selection of the Mr. Strang stories have been collected into a single volume. Both series appeared in Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine during the mid-years of the 20th century. Sadly, Brittain later forsook mystery fiction to become a children s author, and his YA novel The Wish Giver earned him a Newbery Honor award. This collection was edited by Josh Pachter, who also wrote the introduction and compiled a bibliography of Brittain s many publications. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. hardback, large 8vo, 382pp, illustrated, slight browning, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper, ISBN: 0575028882.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper, now protected, has slight sunning of the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper, now protected, has a very small hole on front cover.

hardback, large 8vo, 448pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper, spine slightly faded, ISBN: 0575036028.

Softcover. 183 pp. Volume 59, Issue 1 (Autumn 2009). Softcover. Very good condition; touches of wear on covers and on edges of papers.

Condition: Good. Shelf wear to the jacket, scuff to the front. Light wear to the board edges. Faint marks to the edges of the textblock. Content is in good, clean condition.

Burgundy Cloth. Condition: Near Fine (NEAR NEW). Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE (NEAR NEW). First Edition of This Edition. .Please Email for further details NO EXTRA POSTAGE BEYOND OUR STANDARD RATES! Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). Not Signed or Inscribed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, slight lean, corners and folds slightly rubbed, some overall slight time staining. Not price clipped (£16.95), no inscriptions, piece of paper on copyright page stuck over what may be a library or previous ownership stamp (no other signs of being ex library), internally clean and tight, overall a vg copy. 352pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Copyright © 1986. Page Numbers: N/A. Solidly bound copy and dust jacket with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly skewed spine. Small stains on fore and bottom edges. Dust jacket shows light wear and use around edges. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require extra postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear and slight creasing to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine slightly faded, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 448pp. Vera Brittain (1893-1970), won an exhibition to Somerville College, Oxford, in 1914, but a year later abandoned her studies to enlist as a VAD nurse. She served throughout the war, working in London, Malta and close to the Front in France. At the end of the war, with all of those closest to her dead, she returned to Oxford. Vera Brittain was a convinced pacifist, a prolific speaker, lecturer, journalist and writer, she devoted much of her energy to the causes of peace and feminism. She wrote 29 books in all, novels, poetry, biography and autobiography, but it was TESTAMENT OF YOUTH which established her reputation and made her one of the best loved writers of her time. This is her fascinating look at the 1930s. …

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 80 pages. 7.09x4.41x0.39 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback 1988. 285 pages. COVER IS CREASED. Flat spine. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref P54.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club. Book Club HARDBACK IN JACKET 1981. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket is not torn but has minor edge wear & a few small dents. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref b934.…

Original Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1955. First edition limited to 1,000 copies of which this is copy No. 292. xvii, 76pp., a frontispiece portrait of Winifred Holtby and 8 other black and white illustrations. Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) was an English novelist and journalist. She is probably best known for her novel South Riding, which was posthumously published in 1936. After the First World War, she returned to study at the University of Oxford where she met Vera Brittain, a fellow student with whom she maintained a lifelong friendship. Holtby was, together with Brittain, an ardent feminist, socialist and pacifist. As well as her journalism, Holtby wrote 14 books, including six novels; two volumes of short stories; and the first critical study of Virginia Woolf. This selected bibliography of Winifred Holtby's writings also contains letters written to her governess and a foreword by Vera Brittain. The book is bound in the original blue cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear to the boards and bumping to the spine ends. The titling on the spine is worn. The contents are tight and clean with partial browning to the free endpapers. The front free endpaper has been flat signed by Vera Brittain. Signed by the author. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. "First U. S. Edition" stated. Date on title page. Number line beginning with 1. Fine hardback in fine dust jacket ($15.50). Dust jacket has a 3/4 inch closed tear to top edge of front panel. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket, primarily a barely noticeable fading to top edge of book.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Us Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xiii, 326. Original publisherÕs green cloth lettered gilt at spine. Frontis, illustrations. Very faint wear to covers, otherwise very good.

Hardback. First Thus. Hardback. 486pp. Letters between Vera Brittain best known for her haunting memoir of loss in World war One, Testament of Youth, and her friend novelist Winifred Holtby, best known for South Riding. Minor marks and some slight wrinkling to dust jacket else very clean and neat. Near fine, bright copy in very good dust jacket Near fine, bright copy in very good dust jacket. …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 256 pages. 9.65x6.93x0.47 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 214 pages. 6.00x0.50x9.00 inches. In Stock.