9780720606331 - On Glory's Course by Purdy, James (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 378pp. !st Uk edition. Grey cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Tiny crease to cloth at top of spine. Pink end papers. No inscriptions. Tightly bound. Appears unread. Unclipped dust jacket designed by Thomi Wroblewski. Pink lettering on black/white b/g on face and spine. Small indent to rear hinge of spine of dj. Slight shelf wear to top and lower edges of rear panel. Altogether in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Purdy, James. On glory's course. First UK edition. London: Peter Owen Publishers, 1985. Hardback, VG, in unclipped dustjacket with light shelfwear to edges and a little bumping to corners. Grey cloth with silver lettering to spine. Binding strong. 378pp., contents clean and bright. James Otis Purdy (July 17, 1914 March 13, 2009) was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright who, from his debut in 1956, published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays. He was nominated for the 1985 PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel On Glory's Course. The novel is set in Fonthill, a small Midwestern town of the 1930s where Adele Bevington, a faded and fallen beauty, arrives searching for the illegitimate son she never knew and is drawn into a sinister plot with the local townspeople. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is possibly the ONLY signed first edition of the UK hardback first. SIGNED on the title page. The issue had its price changed on publication and so this has the customary clipped price on the front end flap, with the revised price sticker, PUBLISHER'S PRICE: £10.95. Crisp and clean binding, this book looks to be UNREAD. Did I mention this is a SUPERB novel? Well, it is. George Steiner wrote, 'Purdy is a writer of fantastic talent.'. Signed by Author.