G V Desani, First Edition (24 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Wildly funny and very bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most eccentric and 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. 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 Hatterr escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza. Salman Rushdie says, 'Hatterr's dazzling, puzzling, leaping prose is the first genuine effort to go beyond the Englishness of the English language.'.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. Germano Facetti and F.N. Zouza (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing in this edition with the final revisions - namely the long critique postscript by H. Hatterr's lawyer 'With iron hand, I defend you.' Very mild toning to the text block but appears unread. This edition is distinguished by Germano Facetti's incorporation of Francis Newton Souza's 'Two Saints in a Landscape' in the cover art.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of second revised edition. Pages lightly toned, else tight bright probably unread copy. Scarce.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by dtp Solutions cover art (illustrator). First Edition Thus; 10987654321pt line. VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID,BRIGHT; BLACK TITLES ON WOVEN BLUE STRIPED PAPER COVERS.ORANGE SPINE STRIP. ; 316 pages; "In all my experience, I have not met with anything like it.".

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

Pappe. Condition: neuwertig. EA. Tadellose Erstausgabe mit Umschlag und Lesebändchen In deutscher Sprache. 492 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Revised Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 288. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Introduction by Anthony Burgess. Novel. ISBN: 0370014243 Very good minus in very good minus dust jacket. Decent copy but slightly nicked at head of spine and dust jacket.

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: 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.

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: 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.

Condition: Very good. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, (1961)., (1961). Very good. - Octavo, 8 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in pictorial gray & white wrappers. The covers are slightly bumped & soiled. 255 & [1] pages. Very good. First edition. Among the contents are "Mephisto's Daughter" by G. V. Desani, "Twelve Love Poems" by Tony Connor; "Memories of Warsaw" by Antoni Slonimski and "Coming to London" by Dan Jacobson.

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.

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.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo; VG-/VG-; Hardcover with dust jacket; Brown spine with yellow and green text; Dust jacket is discolored to the spine and text to the spine is illegible, dust jacket also has stains to the rear, rubbing and tear to edges; Boards are shelf-worn and edges are sunned but strong; Text block is tanned otherwise clean; 300p. 1317656. FP New Rockville Stock.

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

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.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light staining on front panel and spine. Revised Edition.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 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.

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.

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.

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).