Defeated by Polnay Peter (8 results)

Not Illustrated (illustrator). London, UK: W.H. Allen. Good plus condition: DJ has slight tear./Dust Jacket. 1966. 12mo., 208 pp. . Good plus condition: DJ has slight tear./Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. London: W.H. Allen, 1966. First edition, first printing. 1966 printed to the title page, 18s net to the jacket's flap. The Hungarian-born English literary novelist, non-fiction and travel writer, features various members of a Catholic family in this philosophical novel in which each of the characters are unexpectedly uprooted to find love, change, religion, and/or meaning. Uniform age-toning to the end-papers as usual, else fine, square and firm in waxed black linen with gilt embossed titles to the spine; in a very good plus to near fine dust jacket with front and spine panel art by B.S. Biro, with a very short rubbed tear to the front panel's lower edge, and slight age-toning to the spine panel; original printed 18s net price still intact to the front inner flap. The dust jacket will be placed in a clear, removable protective sleeve after scanning for this entry.

Condition: Good. First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 12mo (20cm by 13cm), 208pp. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. Endpapers browned, light foxing to the edges of the text block, light bump to the spine; overall, the book is in good to very good condition. The dustwrapper is in very good condition.

first edition 208pp VG+ (black cloth,sl.soiled,edges sl.foxed) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed and mod.soiled,stain to spine,mod.chipping to extrems.).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Previous owners name on ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Biro (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear, chipping and short closed tears to top and bottom of largely pink jacket and spine, spine very slightly faded, corners rubbed and bruised, some small coffee splashes to front and back jacket, some very faint spotting to page fore edges, some very slight offsetting to endpapers, not price clipped (18s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 208pp. A novel on the lives and fates of the Catholic Dencard family. By prolific Hungarian author Peter de Polnay (1906-84).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback/Hardcover. Original dust cover laminated onto front cover. Clean copy in good condition. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

First edition hard back 208 page novel. Touch of dust to the page tops. Fine in Fine B. S. Biro illustrated dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.