9780571110421 - Kith by Newby, P H (12 results)

Condition: Good. DJ may have small chips and tears. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

1977 Newby, PH KITH London: Faber & Faber, c1977 124pp 8vo As new hardcover in fine d/j.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket. Spine of jacket faded. Previous owner inscription to fep. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 124pp. Pale green hardback cloth cover.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket. Spine of jacket faded. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 124pp. Pale green hardback cloth cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition hardcover in very good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is scuffed and sunned, and front is also creased. Board edges, corners and spine ends are slighlty bumped and rubbed, and small damp stain on front board near the lower fore-edge. Page block is lightly blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear throughout. LW. Used.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 124 pages; Booker Prize Winner. Description: 124 p. ; 21 cm. Newby, P. H. (Percy Howard), 1918-. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is rubbed and marked.Internally clean.Excellent binding.[R.N]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 124 pages; Booker Prize Winner. Description: 124 p. ; 21 cm. Newby, P. H. (Percy Howard), 1918-. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Nicolas Bentley (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine faded, some yellowing to white parts of jacket, some spotting and offsetting to endpapers, not price clipped (£3.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 124pp. On arrival as a medical orderly at Suez in 1941, Faulkes is surprised and alarmed to be greeted by a ghost from his family's past. Grinning and dropping enigmatic hints, there is Uncle Raymond, slyly referring to Faulkes' Aunt. This turns out to be Nadia, the beautiful Copt installed in Cairo, who refuses to answer Raymond's letters, however pleading. Faulkes is enlisted to track her down, but it is an operation so bizarre and bungled, that it will leave all their lives marked. In a deft, stylish and intelligent comedy, Newby evokes all the mystery, farce and splendour of the wartime Egypt that he knew so well. Percy Howard Newby (1918-97), at his entertaining and perceptive best. Newby, who had served in the Egyptian Desert during the War, taught English Literature at King Fouad University in Cairo until 1946 and was later the first winner of the Booker Prize. Quite a scarce book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Nicolas Bentley (Jacket design) (illustrator). First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, published in 1977. ***Near fine in beige cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine and bottom corner tips slightly creased. No reading lean. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally the book is also near fine, with no inscriptions or annotations. No creasing and no tears. No foxing. Pages clean. ***In a near fine illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £3.95 net, which has been crossed through in blue ink. The dustwrapper is complete with absolutely no loss - no creases or tears. No fading. Just very slight rubbing at the edges. No browning - just some very light foxing to the foldover flaps. No fading, even to the spine. Dustwrapper bright. ***205mm x 135mm. 124 pages. ***'On arriving at Suez in March 1941 as a medical orderly, it is surprising, even a little alarming, to be greeted by a skeleton straight out of the family cupboard, grinning and dropping hints about the mysterious past. But there Uncle Raymond is, with his loud defensive laugh. One of the hints is a reference to "your aunt". She turns out to be Nadia, a very attractive Copt installed in Cairo, who persistently refuses to answer Raymond's letters no mater how despairing and pleading they might be. Faulkes is enlisted to track her down, an operation which produces results so bizarrely devastating that he is, while being hazy about what happened, marked for the rest of his life. This deft, stylish, beautifully intelligent comedy is P. H. Newby at his most entertaining; happily at home again in the mystery, the farce, the squalor and the splendour of that wartime Egypt where he lived and first won his spurs as one of the most considerable novelists now writing. It will delight his admirers and induce new recruits to swarm happily in their ranks.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'Percy Howard Newby CBE (25 June 1918 - 6 September 1997) was an English novelist and broadcasting administrator. He was the first winner of the Booker Prize, his novel "Something to Answer For" having received the inaugural award in 1969.' (Wiki) ***First impression of the first UK edition of "Notebook" by Robert Lowell, in very nice internal condition, but with some water staining to the boards and dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 124 pages + prelims. Pale green boards in jacket. Condition: The jacket has a small tear which.has been repaired on the inner surface with sellotape. The book itself is clean and unmarked. Every book is sent in a rigid cardboard posting box. Size: 20.5 Cm x 13.5 Cm.

8vo. Pp: 124. Cream illustrated unclipped dust jacket. Publisher's original khaki cloth boards lettered gilt to spine. Ownership name to FFEP of Julian Mitchell, novelist and critic. The word kaleidoscope under his name refers to the radio and arts programme of the 70s - 90s for which he interviewed and reviewed. A letter from Dorothy J. Raw, secretary to John Powell, producer of Kaleidoscope is loosely inserted referring to Julian Mitchell's review of "Kith". A hand written copy of his notes is also inserted. ISBN: 0571110428 Very good in very good dust jacket. Pages are clear internally and binding is tight. There is some toning and fading to the dust jacket, otherwise clean.