Sinclair Browne (64 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition thus. Suitable as a gift. Book.

Softcover, 88 pages; good condition, moderate rubbing to covers; pages very yellowed; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fiine. First Edition. 414pp.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with minor age tone. Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing. Owner name to end paper.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with light wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. DJ with some light wear, sticker and small water mark to spine.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0863000150. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 221 pages. (SL#211).

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. 1st.ed. A tidy copy in tight binding Used - Very Good. VG paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Second impression. Inscribed by Christina Shewell. Spine creased. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is tanned. Good complete DJ.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book and dust jacket solid VG condition.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0863000282. …

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:086300007X.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0863000169.…

1st edition. 1st UK edition. Ex public library - labels, stamps, etc.; text clean; binding tight; dust jacket spine faded; dj in removable clear sleeve Used - Acceptable. Ex lib hardback in dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is sunned and edges are creased. Page block is lightly blemished. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Sinclair Browne, London c.1983, 1st. 8vo. cloth, 336pp. NF/VG $.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp.xv, 320 pages, a very good plus paperback - tight binding and completely clean [0863000231].

Paperback. First Ed UK, so stated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of toning to the extremities of the panels; mildest rubbing; a small, eighth-inch deep ding at the bottom edge of the text block affects about thirty pages. Binding square and secure; text clean. Certainly unread; remains very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 367pp. First Edition Thus in the UK, so stated. Published simultaneously with the Hardcover edition. First published in the USA by Alfred A. Knopf in 1969. Trade Paperback. Both Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge, which preceeded Mr. Bridge by ten years, are great books. Period. If you want character development, poetic moments, insight, a portrait of a certain time and place, these two books cannot be beat. The Bridges are petty, refined, bigoted, caring, aloof, devoted, rich, yet simple people. In a sense it is almost impossible to review one without the other. Significantly, both books start off with the wooing and the marriage. It is as if the books' titles signify not only who are the main characters, but what they are. Both characters define themselves by their spouse, and, de facto, all we know, or need to know, about them revolves around their married personae. The only thing more important to the couple than each other seems to be what others think of them. In Mrs. Bridge it is phrased this way: `She brought up her children very much as she herself had been brought up, and she hoped that when they were spoken of it would be in connection with their nice manners, their pleasant dispositions, and their cleanliness, for these were qualities she valued above all others.' Accordingly, these are not standard novels. There are no great, overreaching themes. They are more like `blackout sketches'. Yet, each sketch is sort of like a minor point in the characters' lives, and each point paints a mere portion of the canvas. In this way I am reminded of the Pointillist style of painting. In both books we get essentially the same portraits of the two main characters, albeit slightly parallaxed. Mrs. Bridge is a feeler and Mr. Bridge a thinker. She realizes, at some level, the emptiness of their existence. He does not, at least not as deeply.Yet, Connell does not condescend to his characters; he deeply respects and takes them seriously, warts and all. Mr. Bridge thinks very ill of both blacks and Jews, as does his wife (to a lesser degree), yet is shown doing acts of kindness and charity for individual blacks and Jews. Then, he turns around and questions the motives of a lynching victim, and that of the first black girl who wants to pledge at Carolyn's sorority, or reacts queasily to the very presence of a Jewish investor, and wonders if Hitler was all bad, and not in the purest philosophic sense. Similarly, in her book, Mrs. Bridge has many moments of fine and of less admirable personal traits exposed: She is curiously fond of a young black girl who is friends of the children, she is utterly clueless as to the world of male bullying, she is scandalized at the thought of a dramatic presentation of Tobacco Road coming to town, and she floats through Europe until the Nazis invade Poland. Perhaps her defining moment comes when she discovers Douglas is looking at a dirty magazine, by going through his clothes while getting the laundry ready. He discovers her snooping: `He had followed her across the room and was now standing on the opposite side of the desk with his fists clenched behind his back. Seeing him so tense she thought that if she could only manage to rumple his hair as she used to do when he was a small boy everything would be all right. Calmly, and a little slyly, she began easing toward him.Seeing that she was after him he also moved to keep the desk between them.' Poetry in Connell's fiction is attained by the juxtaposition of the singularly beautiful momentwith another scene of singular beauty. Yet, these moments, these points, alone give no insight, but arrayed in their respective clusters, then played off of each other in both books, they form two brilliant portraits, whose conclusions are excellent. Her book ends with mundane torture and his with continued delusion- fitting purgatories for both. Evan S. Connell restores faith in the way things should be in good art. Connell takes innately dull material, and weaves intimately exciting portraits by what he focuses on, and how. These two books are aptly deserving of the appellation 'great'. Damn, it feels good to write that.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. First US edition, hardcover, has a subtle lean to the binding, bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, light rubbing to the covers with a scuff to the tail edge of the back cover, and smudging to the edges of the text block. Overall, a Very Good copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and rubbing with mild smudging to the covers.…

Paperback. There is some light wear and some fading to the covers. Apart from a touch of edge foxing, the book is internally very clean. Illustrated, 453.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No inscriptions. Top of spine very gently bumped with one small nick.

paperback, 8vo, 265pp, page edges browned, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, spine faded and lightly creased, Good condition. ISBN: 0863000053.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. D/W slightly browned but otherwise vg, boards and contents vg/fine apart from the whole books contents being age browned, more around the edges. A host of individuals chose their favorite book extract - list as on d/w (image). Contains original purchase receipt from Blackwell's in Oxford but too late to get your money back.…

Printed Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8 colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Loosely inserted is a handwritten letter from the editors. Dustwrapper is protected. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. 216 pages. Winner of the Sinclair Award for Fiction 1983/4, "awarded to an unpublished manuscript of social or political significance". Laid in at the front is a Sinclair Research compliments slip signed "Love, Clive". Good in Good jacket. Page edges tanned; top edge very dull. Jacket also tanned at the edges; small losses to the top corners; back has picked up a couple of dents along the spine fold.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. library marks endpapers and page edges, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: slight edge wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Library.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. some library marks, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: slight wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Library.