Ellis a E Lindsay Derek (11 results)

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing of the first British hardcover edition with the scarcely found wrap-around jacket art. Navy blue cloth boards with gold titles and off-white endpapers. The corners of the boards are fairly sharp. Slight spine roll. Minor soiling is visible along the top and bottom edges of the front board. No markings by a previous owner or retailer. The page edges are tanned and foxing is apparent on the exposed page edges, the front and rear paste-downs and preliminary pages. The text is unaffected. The jacket is price intact, and the colors of the wrap-around art are bright, especially the purple background and the olive titles on the front panel. Minor darkening of the jacket's spine. There is a crescent-shaped loss to the bottom edge of the front panel, at the fore-edge. Chips are missing from the crown of the spine, and there is a closed, L-shaped tear that runs for an inch along the gutter from the crown to the bottom of the word The in the title. Two creases run horizontally across the top edge of the front panel, connecting with a shorter tear in the front fold. There is considerable foxing to the flaps, which is also visible in the white sections of the front panel, affecting the doctor's coat and the white sections of the figure on all fours. There is a neat, pin-head puncture in the front panel, under the K in Rack. Despite these blemishes, given the scarcity of this edition, this is a pleasing example. A. E. Ellis was the pseudonym of playwright Derek Lindsay (deceased), and The Rack was his only novel. From the jacket: "Paul Davenant is a young Englishman who leaves University to enter a T.B. sanatorium in the French Alps. Over two and a half years his treatment assumes the proportions of a medical marathon, and during that time he has ample leisure to observe intimately the characters and fortunes, both comic and tragic, of the other inmates, and of the doctors, capricious and absolute gods of his universe . . . The Rack, brilliantly blending farce and tragedy, describes the domestic absurdities, the heightened relationships, the fluctuations of hope and despair that make up the tubercular patient's daily horizon." And from the cover of the Penguin Classics edition: "There are certain books which we call great for want of a better term, that rise like monuments above the cemeteries of literature: Clarissa Harlowe, Great Expectations, Ulysses. The Rack, to my mind, is one of this company" --Graham Greene.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. A.E. Ellis was the pseudonym of Derek Lindsay. He wrote merely one book - The Rack. This copy is a THIRD PRINTING of the first edition, 1959. Copyright page notes: "First published 1958, reprinted 1958, 1959". Printed in Great Britain at The Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey. Bound in original blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, in publisher's pale blue/grey dustjacket with red lettering. NOTE: A GOOD COPY ONLY. Slight handling wear, lacks ffep, dustjacket with large chips & closed tears (see photographs), mild spotting to edge of book block, otherwise a clean tight solid hardcover copy. The dustjacket is now protected in a removable clear mylar cover. 414pp. A good reading copy of an uncommon early edition. SB-66.…

Condition: New. Klappentextrnrn There are certain books we call great for want of a better term, that rise like monuments above the cemeteries of literature: Clarissa Harlowe, Great Expectations, Ulysses. The Rack to my mind is one of this company. - Graham Gr.

Condition: New.

tapa blanda. Condition: 2ª Mano - Bueno. 2ª Mano. Sudamericana. 1960. Horizontes. Libro.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good, somewhat edge-torn (with loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 414 pages ; 21 cm. Subjects; English fiction 20th century. Tuberculosis patients Fiction. Sanatoriums Fiction. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good, somewhat edge-torn (with loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 414 pages ; 21 cm. Subjects; English fiction 20th century. Tuberculosis patients Fiction. Sanatoriums Fiction. 1 Kg.…