Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Prospectus loosely inserted. Light foxing and dust marking to top edge. A little wear to jacket edges, some light tanning.
Published by Heinemann 1954., 1954
Seller: Adam Mills Rare Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition, gilt cloth & illustrated dws. Sm.8vo, frontispiece + c.pp48, armorial bookplate on endpaper, also neat stamp of Arts Council of Great Britain, dws slightly dusty, else very good. With Heinemann slip requesting a review. The Verse Letters include a reference to Samuel Palmer. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.
Published by London: Neville Spearman, 1959
Seller: Peter Scott, Portslade, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition. Hardcover. Selected, edited and introduced by Rowland Watson. Inscribed and signed by Rowland Watson on f.e.p. Publisher's leaflet (4 sides) with advance reviews by Stevie Smith, Brian Aldiss a.o. loosely inserted. 404pp. Frontis. Index. Slight offsetting to endpapers, V.g. in tanned dustwrapper rubbed extremities of spine and corners. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Spearman, London, 1958
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: Neville Spearman 1958). First UK Edition. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR. Publisher's red boards with gilt spine lettering. The usual offsetting to both sets of end-papers and slight pushing at the head and tail of the spine otherwise a bright and clean VG+ copy. Inscribed by Rowland Watson who provided the introduction: "For/ Gladys and Louis/ with fond love from/ Watty". The VG+ dustwrapper is priced 13s 6d net to the inside flap and has a couple of tiny chips at the head of the spine and age-related discolouration to the rear panel. Laid in is one of the Author's own book-plates. Short stories. 'A brilliant and provocative study of adolescence' written in 1920 but published here for the first time, six years after the author's death. Photographs/scans available upon request.