Case Altered by William Plomer (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book. Boards are moderately bowed, but not severely. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is moderately loose. Moderate shelf wear. Noticable fading due to exposure to sunlight. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First printing of Plomer's third novel in good, clean and bright internal order. Green cloth however rather worn and dulled to spine, hence 'fair' rating overall. 12mo. 341pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good 1/4 inch tear in cloth on top spine ends, spine very lightly browned, some very light soiling on panels, light browning of page edges, clean text and sound binding.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American edition with the Publisher's symbol on the copyright page.Yellow cloth with brown tiles to the front and spine. This copy is VG in a VG, clipped DJ. Exterior is modestly soiled, modestly sunned to the spine, but minimal edgewear. Top page edges dyed green. Inside has pictorial EPs, is unmarked, clear, and firmly bound with modest/even toning. DJ has two old tape repairs on the verso, modest chipping, moderately sunned spine, and a 2" x 3/4" open tear at the top of the spine. 378 pp. Scarce in the American edition. …

Condition: Good. 1946. 341 pages. Yellow jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The boards are marked and worn. The endpapers are a bit marked. Some foxing. Soundly bound.(rf14)(if5). Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. (mystery fiction) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. VG++. First American Edition. Dust jacket is re-inforced from the obverse, but does not show with it protected in mylar. Overall, a tight, clean copy of the rather scarce first American edition of this Plomer novel (scarce in dust jacket). Illustrated endpapers. 378 pp.…

Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. reprint. ex-libris.jacket is shelf rubbed and lightly edgeworn.library stamp marks,well bound.[J.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Green Cloth. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). Dust Jacket Condition: Fair (some loss). This is the first edition. Some foxing in places on some pages in book. Brown spotted fore'edges. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details. OFFERED FOR SALE BY A FULL-TIME STOCKHOLDING CAREER BOOKSELLER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY). FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Not Signed or Inscribed.…

341 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. dj. First edition. First edition. 341 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Woolmer 302. Woolmer 302 Green cloth. Book Society bookplate. Very good (some cocking) in good dust jacket by John Banting with some loss at head of spine and front panels.

341 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. dj. First edition. First edition. 341 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Woolmer 302. Woolmer 302 Green cloth. Book Society bookplate. Very good in worn dust jacket by John Banting with some loss at head of front panel and top and bottom of spine panel.

341 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. dj. First edition. First edition. 341 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Woolmer 302. Woolmer 302 Green cloth. Spine dull. Good in very good dust jacket by John Banting with some loss at top and bottom margin of back panel.

First edition. 378 pp. Small "15" in red pencil to the front flyleaf, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with two tears and light chips to base and crown of spine.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 341. Owners' bookplate on pastedown. Edges little soiled, cover scuffed and somewhat soiled, o/w VG. Woolmer 302. Issued in an edition of 1520 copies. A novel.

Early Printing without publisher's symbol at copyright page. Allan McNab dustjacket art. Hubin listed mystery set within the boarding house of a "handsome and lovable young Jewess". Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, dime sized chip at top rear panel.

Early Printing without publisher's symbol at copyright page. Allan McNab dustjacket art. Hubin listed mystery set within the boarding house of a "handsome and lovable young Jewess". Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardback A very good copy in green cloth with slightly faded but readable red lettering. In a fair dustwrapper which has edge chips and tears. Two ex libris plates of previous owners on front end-papers. Binding slightly cocked. Top edge a little dusty/foxed. A little light fore-edge foxing but clean internally. 341pp + 2pp press notices of author's precious novel. A novel "concerned with the interplay of emotions between various Londoners whom changing social conditions have brought together--".…

First edition. 8vo, green cloth. The striking jacket drawing is by John Banting. Woolmer 302. Spine leaning, foredge faintly foxed, else near fine in a tattered dust jacket, much of the spine of which is missing.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition in the unclipped dust-jacket (priced 7/6 net) designed by English Surrealist John Banting. Publisher's emerald green cloth, slightly rubbed, with just the remnants of the yellow title lettering on the spine. Unclipped dust-jacket is chipped in three places, including top of spine, but other than that pretty clean and bright. An about VG copy in similar jacket. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to the spine. 8vo - 341 pp. The spine of the book is dusty. The book is solid, the corners true and the text block is clean. The complete dust jacket, designed by John Banting, shows the 7/6 price to the flap. The panels are bright but the spine is toned. The spine ends show minor wear. Woolmer, "The Hogarth Press," page 106, #302. Very Good / Very Good. …

341 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Foxing to fore- and top-edges; gold a little dimmed on spine; but a very good copy in a bright jacket with a few tiny chips to the top of the spine (not affecting any lettering).

dj. First American Edition. Octavo (20cm); publisher's tan cloth boards, lettered in brown on spine and front cover; green top-stain; pictorial endpapers; dust jacket; 378pp. Corners gently bumped, tiny chip at spine crown, rear panel very slightly wrinkled, else Very Good or better. Novel based on the true case of James Achew who murdered Sybil Da Costa, the mother of his daughter, and whose insanity plea was rejected though his death sentence would eventually be reprieved. Plomer himself had been a lodger in Achew's house the year of the murder in 1929. (See M.C. Rintoul's "Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction" (2014), p. 140.).…

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 341, [3]. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, grey dustjacket printed in red. Spine gilding tarnished, dustjacket a little rubbed to folds, lightly soiled, spine panel lightly sunned, chipped at top edge, and with closed tears to foot and centre. The first edition of Plomer?s third novel, in its attractive dustjacket by John Banting.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in warm tan cloth stamped in brown, in a Fine illustrated dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 378pp. Q21983.

A first edition, first printing of 'The Case is Altered' published by The Hogarth Press in 1930. A very good book, neatly rebound with leather spine and patterned boards with mimicked dust wrapper - SIGNED on the title page by William Plomer. Some spotting to the edges. A wonderful presentation. His third novel, published by the Hogarth Press after Turbott Wolfe and Sado. Set in London, it turns from colonial subjects to the precarious lives of boarding-house residents, exploring loneliness, dependence and emotional entanglement with sharp modernist sympathy. Leonard and Virginia Woolf championed Plomer, and the novel remains one of his more elusive early works, admired in its day.…