Gerald Duckworth 1996 (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Original cloth with dustjacket. Dustjacket discoloured (mainly on spine), minor traces of use, else a (very) good copy. Text in English. Please see description or ask for photos.

1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover). Pp. 112, illus with b&w photos in text (publisher's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper).

There is some light foxing to the page tops otherwise a near fine first edition hardback in a faded dust jacket; 328 pages.

Original publisher's light-blue paperback, pictorial frontcover, 2nd printing [1981], thick 8vo: 370pp., 3 maps, list emperors, chapternotes & references, extend bibliography, index. Very fine copy..

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover). Pp. viii + 184, illus with b&w plates (publisher's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper).

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (near Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 224 (publisher's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper).

1st edn 3rd imp. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG, not price clipped). Pp. viii + 202 (publisher's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper).

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 189 (publisher's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Hbk 328pp an unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked in sleeve-protected dj as new.

First Edition. Near fine book in a near fine price-clipped dustwrapper.

8vo. Original printed card covers (softback) (near Fine). Pp. viii + 206 (publisher's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper).

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (near Fine). Pp. 186 (publisher's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper).

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover). Pp. 206 (publisher's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper).

Condition: Very Good. 8vo.,pp. viii,184, hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine and to rear extremities.

1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (near Fine in protective cover). Pp. xvi + 240, illus with b&w maps and plates (publisher's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper).

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Excellent signed copies of John Bayley's 'The Queer Captain' and 'George's Lair', from the library of notable publisher Tom Mashler. The first edition, first impression of these two novels, in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Inscribed by the author to the title page of The Queer Captain and George's Lair to 'Dear Maschler'. A newspaper review of George's Lair, dated 1996, is taped to the front free end paper of that volume. Two lovely copies of Bayley's novels, including The Queer Captain (1995) and the now scarce George's Lair (1996), both of which intertwine the thriller genre with social comedy. From the library of Tom Maschler, a noted publisher who headed Jonathan Cape for over three decades. During his career he helped to publish and discover works by Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marques, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Joseph Heller, John Lennon, and many other influential authors. He was also a one of the key figures in the creation of the Booker Prize in 1969. In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Dust wrappers are in lovely condition. Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). signed by author. book.…