Mona Andrade (11 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Brown and blue cloth hardback with black lettering on front, slightly sunned endpapers, and light foxing on page edges, otherwise clean tight copy in good condtion,80pp Dust Jacket, pieces missing from spine, tears on edges, acceptable condition only, price of 3/6 net on bottom edge of front of Jacket. Published 1941 by G Bell & Son s Ltd. Book#100769.

Condition: Good. 1941. First Edition. 80 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial paper covered boards. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.

Condition: Good. 1942. Reprinted. 80 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown paper covered boards and blue cloth spine with lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Lettering is clear. Boards are bowed. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1942 EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 2nd class tracked post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1958). 248pp. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE copy but for a couple of chips and tiny loss to jacket spine, now preserved in archival jacket protector. From the library of British film director Jack Clayton (1921-1995), although no indication of provenance appears in the book. Clayton's final project was to direct the film adaptation of Muriel Spark's Memento Mori (1992).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover (no jacket). First printing; viii, 80pp. A few minor imperfections on exterior, but overall well-cared for, and very good for age. TS. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a VG hardcover first edition copy in a VG mylar protected DJ, red/blue spine, 3.75 flap price.

Halbleinenband. Condition: Gut. 80 pages, text in english Edward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS (27 December 1887 - 6 June 1971) was an English physicist, writer, and poet. He told The Literary Digest his name was pronounced "as written, i.e., like air raid, with and substituted for air." In the scientific world Andrade is best known for work (with Ernest Rutherford) that first determined the wavelength of a type of gamma radiation, proving it was far higher in energies than X-rays known at the time. In popular culture he was best known for his appearances on The Brains Trust. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 200.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Firmly bound, gray card boards. Base of front end paper is detached. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is worn and discoloured, and edges are creased and nicked. Spine ends are bumped, and page block is tanned and blemished. Ink price to FEP. Pages are clear and unmarked throughout. LW. Used.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce first English edition, the first impression, of Jacques Natanson"s sharp, cynical yet heartfelt novel with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original red cloth binding, complete with the original unclipped dust wrappper.This is the first English edition, the first impression of this work.In this novel, a French magistrate hears a homicide confession described on the dust jacket as "as disarmingly honest as it is disconcertingly gay," revealing the love affair that sparked the crime, told with the blend of cynicism and genuine emotion characteristic of this French author.Jacques Natanson (19011978) was a French playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, famed for collaborations with Max Ophüls on films like La Ronde and Lola Montès. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Very slight rubbing to extremities. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Dust wrapper, smart. Unclipped. The odd spot to wraps with slight age toning heavier to perimeters. Rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in the odd small chip and closed tear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots to fore edge. Very Good Indeed. book.