G V Desani, First Edition (23 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. (1991), 207pp, red cloth, NYSCA sticker to front of dj.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + DJ. First American Edition, First Printing. 300 Pp. Blue Cloth Stamped In Red And Black. First American Edition, From The Second Uk Edition (A Third Edition Was Also Published In 1970). Book Is Near Fine, Clean, Light Dust And Bumping To Top And Bottom Edges Of Spine, Some Fading Right On Lower Edges Of Covers. Dj Very Good +Clean, Slight Fading To Spine Panel, Light Of Wear To Corners And Top And Bottom Of Spine Only, Not Price-Clipped, 1/2" Tear At Bottom Rear Spine Fold With Associated Wrinkling, 3/4" Completely Closed Tear At Top Of Front Panel, 1/2" Rub Along Foredge Of Front Panel, Tiny Loss At Corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. First Edition. 1st Edition(1950); octavo; 57 pp (with full color frontispiece of author); Good+ in Good- DJ; moisture stains to bottom third of boards and dustjacket not discernable on outer side, shallow edgewear with several small closed creased tears, boards slightly bowed, rubbed with light soil, offsetting to endpapers; else clean tight copy. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

FIRST EDITION THUS (REVISED EDITION), octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1970. Revised edition. First printing thus. A fine copy in a near-fine copy. A clean copy with price ($5.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Light fading on jacket spine. Prior owner's neat stamp on top edge and front pastedown, on an otherwise fine copy. F1600A.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First American Edition. Hardcover. 300pp. Head and foot of spine slightly browned, otherwise V.g. in dustwrapper sunned on spine, missing small piece head of spine, rubbed and nicked foot of spine, small chip and tear top edge of front panel, small loss to corners.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Hardcover in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition thus. Foreword by T.S. Eliot and E.M. Forster. Frontispiece by Sárika Góth. Quarter leather and cloth stamped in gilt. Slight staining on text block edges, light wear to the extremities, very good or better in a spine-tanned about very good dust jacket with faint soil, slight loss at the crown and a few small chips and tears. A very uncommon play, and the author's second book.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Foreward by T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster. Backstrip missing. Spine cracked. (Italian Drama, Plays).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's black cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Good Dust-Jacket which appears to be that of The Saturn Press published in 1949 one year later than the Aldor publication.Still remains a scarce wrapper but it comes with the Aldor First Edition book.price clipped and the wrapper has three repaired closed tears and some general rubbing/creasing and wear to the extremities.Light spotting and crinkling to the blank front endpape.This copy has NO previous owner's names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning to spine.A rare title in dust-jacket of this highly popular novel and well described as a Wildly funny novel somewhat bizarre.It's an eccentric and strangely absorbing work.H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta.His story is of his search for enlightenment as in the process of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with 7 sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of "Living." Uncommon and sought after title 8vo 239pp First UK Edition in 1949 Saturn Press Dust-Jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Hardcover first edition in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Hardcover first edition in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st impression, no owner's name or other inscription, light sunning to spine, page ends age toned, foxing to fep and rep, no D/j. This book retitled "All About H. Hatterr" in subsequent editions.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Hardcover first edition in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Hardcover first edition in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Farrar Straus and Young Inc. , New York, 1951. 300 pgs First US Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Previous owner's mark present to the reverse of the front board. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards lightly rubbed and worn. A cult novel considered by many a fine example of mid-century modernist novel. Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of "Living. " Each teacher delivers himself of a great "Generality, " each great Generality launches a new great "Adventure, " from each of which Hatter escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza. G. V. Desani (19092001) was born Nairobi, Kenya and raised in India. In the late 1930s, and throughout the war, he was a BBC broadcaster and lectured on India. He contributed regularly to The Times of India's Illustrated Weekly and produced a weekly opinion page called "Very High and Very Low." He moved to the United States in 1970 to teach at Boston University and subsequently the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Professor of Religion and Philosophy. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

First edition, first printing; 8vo; colour frontispiece, light offsetting to half-title and terminal leaf; publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket, minor wear and dust-soiling; very good. With a foreword by T.S. Eliot and E.M. Forster.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. Blue cloth with red and black spine, in original dust jacket, unclipped and with publisher's wrap around band. Book with very light fade to spine, jacket spine faded with wear to edges and a few shallow chips and rips. Jacket a bit wrinkled at back otherwise very good. Book clean and tight. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American edition. First printing. Hardcover and dust jacket in mylar. Good binding and cover. Sunning to DJ spine. Light wear, small chip to head of front DJ. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Frederick Hinchliff (illustrator). First Edition. Very scarce first edition of this minor, offbeat classic. Publisher's magenta cloth lettered in silver. Virtually fine copy (no ownership marks or any other minor flaws to note) in VG unclipped dw with very minor loss (not affecting lettering) to head and tail of spine and slight spine sunning. Almost unheard of in the dustwrapper, which is illustrated by Frederick Hinchliff.

Hardcover/gebunden. Condition: gut. Erste Aufl. Fadengehefteter Pappeinband mit geprägtem Rücken- und Deckeltitel, Lesebändchen und illustriertem Schutzumschlag. Der Umschlag auf der Rückseite mit kleinem -bis auf den Hinterdeckel reichenden- Fleck, ansonsten guter bis sehr guter Erhaltungszustand. "Literatur als kreatives Chaos, in dem alles vermischt wird, was dem halb gebildeten, halb närrischen Ich-Erzähler H. Hatterr - Sohn eines europäischen Seemanns und einer Dame aus Penang, aufgewachsen in Kalkutta und immer auf der Suche nach Geld, Sex und Erleuchtung - in den Sinn kommt: Philosophie und Gossensprache, Shakespeare und Quacksalberei, hinduistische, christliche und muslimische Wissensornamente und der steife Ton der Jurisprudenz in schwitzendem indischem Gewand. 1948 erschien in England dieses gewitzte Buch von einem bisher unbekannten Autor, der sich lustig machte über alles und jeden. Heraus kam ein kopfloser Bildungsroman, eine deftige Schelmengeschichte. G. V. [Govindas Vishnoodas] Desani, geboren 1909 als Sohn indischer Eltern in Kenia, wuchs im Sindh (im heutigen Pakistan) auf, schlug sich 1939 bis 1952 in England als Journalist u. a. bei der BBC durch. Dann tauchte er lange in indischen Ashrams und buddhistischen Klöstern in Burma und Japan ab. Ab 1968 oder 1970 lehrte er in Boston, dann in Austin, Texas, orientalische Religionsphilosophie. Er starb 2000. Außer diesem Roman hat er noch eine Art Theaterstück, Hali, hinterlassen." (Verlagstext) Ilija Trojanow (* 23. August 1965 in Sofia, Bulgarien) ist ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Übersetzer und Verleger. Ilija Trojanow floh als Kind mit seiner bulgarischen Familie 1971 über Jugoslawien und Italien in die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und erhielt politisches Asyl. Im Jahr 1972 zog die Familie weiter nach Kenia, wo der Vater eine Anstellung als Ingenieur erhalten hatte. Unterbrochen von einem Deutschlandaufenthalt in den Jahren 1977 bis 1981, in denen er das Staatliche Landschulheim Marquartstein besuchte, lebte Ilija Trojanow bis 1984 in Nairobi, wo er die Deutsche Schule Nairobi besuchte. Trojanow verfasste in den 1990er Jahren einige Sachbücher und Reiseführer über Afrika, er gab eine Anthologie afrikanischer Gegenwartsliteratur heraus und übersetzte Werke afrikanischer Autoren. 1996 erschien sein erster eigener Roman Die Welt ist groß und Rettung lauert überall, in dem er die Erfahrungen seiner Familie als politische Flüchtlinge und Asylbewerber verarbeitete. (Wikipedia) In deutscher Sprache. 492, (4) pages. 8° (125 x 190mm).

First U.S. edition, revised from the original 1948 UK edition. A cult novel considered by many a fine example of midcentury modernism. Few light creases to head of spine and touch of soiling to covers otherwise near fine; in dust jacket with red at spine toned to pink, edges lightly nicked and rubbed and few small tears, otherwise very good to near fine. In wrap-around band bearing quotes from T. S. Eliot et al declaring this work, Desani's first book, "remarkable." (Quarter-inch corner chip to band otherwise near fine).

1 vols. 8vo. First American edition. First American edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue Cloth, Fine in dust jacket and the front half of the wrap-around-band with reviews by T.S. Eliot, C.E.M. Joad & Edmund Blunden.