Isbn: 9780224015721 - Said the Old Man to the Young Man (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Nice copy. Cloth covered blue boards, bright gold titling. Clean, unmarked throughout. Unclipped DJ has a couple of little marks here and there and fading to spine (See pictures). All our books at the moment are reduced so the price you see reflects a 33% discount. You may be interested in The Literaticus Book Service. We specialise in tracking down those harder to find editions, among other bookish services such as gift fulfilment. Get in touch to send us your Book Wants or ask a bookish question. If this is intended as a gift, please email first and I can gift wrap for no extra charge. If you would like special delivery but don't see an option for it, just email first and I'll obtain a quote. If you have any questions, require more information or if you would like more pictures, do not hesitate to get in touch.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jonathan Cape, 1978. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, 188pp. D/j price-clipped (pre-sale), slightly marked and faded. A fair copy. 0224015729/0.4uk.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket price clipped with minor shelf wear to edges. Blue cloth with bright lettering to spine. No inscriptions. 188 pages clean bright and tight. Playwright Arnold Wesker is also an accomplished writer of prose - a rare combination. Indeed when Love Letters on Blue Paper appeared in 1974, the New Statesman, finding the stories `finely sensitive' and `strongly humane', questioned whether it may be that `the kind of realism he's often sought is much more attainable through the generous particularities of prose fiction'. It is a fine point: what is clear is that Wesker's art communicates itself whatever the form, and this collection of stories can only be considered a triumph. He explores the delicacy that is exacted, the exasperation that is inevitable and the truths that emerge when youth and old age meet in `The Man Who Would Never Write Like Balzac'. He observes a young man in the throes of making the biggest decisions of his life while trying to cope with an irrepressible great-uncle who has come to town for Yom Kippur in `Said the Old Man to the Young Man'. He brings four people together at the perfect moment of their friendship - for all the discord of their lives - locked in fleeting harmony in `The Visit'. It was remarked in The Times Literary Supplement that Love Letters on Blue Paper left one `with a renewed awareness of Mr Wesker's admirable qualities as a human being'. That feeling is indistinguishably blended with one's impression of him as a gifted writer in this new collection. Size: 8vo.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Size: 8vo.

First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the Author to title-page with written below " Publication date 11 May, 1978" in the Author's hand. Also inscribed by the Author as from ' Arnold and Dusty' to friends on their wedding anniversary on half-title. 188pp. Top-edge lightly spotted, V.g. in slightly marked dustwrapper sunned and with small stain to spine.…