Breakfast and Elevenses (13 results)

Condition: Fair. 1961. First Edition. 304 pages. Illustrated jacket over purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. Includes B&W illustrations. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Binding is firm. Endpapers have strips of tanning caused by jacket. Prices in pencil to front endpaper. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Heavy staining and bleaching overall. Boards are slightly bowed. Book has a moderate forward lean. Gilt is dulled and worn. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with small tears, mild chips, and creasing. Jacket is slightly rubbed and marked overall. Some creasing and peeling to lamination.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Much wear to edges of d/w. Carefully wrapped on a protective acetate cover to prevent further damage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. First edition 1961, Pages clean and bright, Binding firm, Light wear to edges, Dust jacket unclipped, Some large tears to dust jacket spine and front cover. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1961 first edition on purple cloth.

First Edition. Text clean; binding tight; khaki-brown cloth slightly faded on spine. Dust jacket not price-clipped, but worn at edges with tears, repaired on verso with clear tape; dj protected in removable clear film Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail and over £40 tracked and inside UK signed for. PayPal accepted. All dust wrappers are film protected. First edition. Illustrated by the Author. A novel of a Life. Original purple cloth, gilt decorated. Boards faded at edges and at spine. Neat contemporary name on front grey end paper. In pictorial dust wrapper which has a few chips, nicks and small pieces missing. Coupon cut out on back flap of dust wrapper. Complete with original price.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket painting and illustrations by the author (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear, chipping, creasing closed tears and small loss to top and bottom of fab colourful jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised, short creased tear mid spine, folds rubbed, not price clipped (25s), previous owner's inscription to top ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 304pp. John Bratby's wryly humourous autobiographical novel. John Randall Bratby RA (1928-92), was an English painter and writer who founded the kitchen sink realism style of art that was influential in the late 1950s. Quite a scarce book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINTING. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, ORIGINAL UNPRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE PRESENT, SEVERAL FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES WITH 304 PAGES. VERY MINOR WEAR TO JACKET AT TOP OF SPINE, HORIZONTAL CREASE TO JACKET ALONG TOP REAR EDGE, FEW MINOR MARKS TO CLOTH COVER, VERY OCCASIONAL MINOR BLEMISH TO PAGES. OVERALL A VERY GOOD PLUS COPY WITH NO INSCRIPTIONS & MOSTLY CLEAN INTERNALLY. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET MAY HAVE SOME REFLECTIONS PRESENT IN IMAGES FROM THE CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.

hardcover + dustjacket. Condition: fair. 303pp. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing, a lovely copy in the dust wrapper. No marking or inscriptions. dust wrapper with minor edgewear, with a minor closed tear on the rear panel (1/4"). Not price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. 1961 Hutchinson Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression . Near fine clean tight binding in very good+ unclipped dustjacket, wonderful 60's jacket design & illustrations by John Bratby.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. Some marking due to age on pages, but overall book remains in good condition considering age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

First edition. Octavo. 304 pages. Illustrated by the author. The second in the series of autobiographical novels by the artist who was the prime exponent of kitchen sink realism.Some differential fading to the covers. Very good in very good indeed dustwrapper slightly rubbed at the edges.