Devil Rides Outside by John Griffin (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Second Printing. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. dj: avg in mylar. book: overall avg. some spotting to boards and page edges. crease to first 10 or so pages, since flattened out.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. D.j., 596 pp. Author's first novel about an American in France beased on the author's early years. Owner name on fly, otherwise a very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Second Printing. Inscribed ' for ---- ----- With all good wishes.'. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback; First Printing. Condition: Good+. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 579 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In dark red cloth. Owner name. No jacket.

Black cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition stated. [ix], 596pp [mild chipping and general mild wear to dj] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. This is a VG first edition, first printing, Cardinal Giant GC-14, gold spine. By Griffin during his blind period before Black Like Me and after his war against Hitler.

Paperback. first edition. GC-14 near fine, unread, a spine glue ridge Cover art by Tom Dunn. paperback,

first edition, grape cloth, 511pp, VG(sl edgewear, boards sl rubbed, sunned & soiled, v sl soiled & foxed ep's & edges).

first edition, grape cloth, 511pp, G+(sl cocked, vsl edgewear, vsl rubbed & sunned, internal seperation at front hinge, prev owners inscr to ffep, sl foxing to ep's & edges) d/w VG-(price clipped, sl wear & tears to extrems with sl chipped spine head & foot & corners, sl foxing internally & to flaps, sl sunned & soiled).

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Our beautiful vintage books would make a fantastic gift for any vintage book lover. Here at Country House Library you will find an eclectic mix of genres to choose from that would pique anyone's interest! This vintage edition of The Devil Rides Outside by John Griffin would be a brilliant read for any fan of vintage thriller books. Treat your loved one today and find a new home for this pre-loved book. Our books can also be used for home d?cor with colourful designs, dust-jackets and illustrated covers that can be displayed on the bookshelf! Title: The Devil Rides Outside Author: John Griffin Publisher: Collins Publication Date: 1953 Format: Hardcover in jacket Condition: This book is in good condition for its age other than some signs of wear with torn jacket, newspaper cut-out and inscription on endpaper.

first edition 511pp VG+ (grape cloth,sl.soiled,eps and edges sl.soiled,spine cracked and sl.shaky) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled w.spine sl.browned,sl.wear to extrems.w.3cm closed tear and chipping to head of spine,price-clipped).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed by the author on the epigraph page. Stated Second Printing. Black cloth boards with white titles on spine. Corners bumped. Light shelf wear at tail of spine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book condition is good. Hard cover. Dust jacket good, repaired as the front right-hand corner has reasonable tear, some minor top edge wear and bottom as well. Book block as some foxing on the top and side, bottom clean of foxing. Book boards clean front and back. Spine intact. Ex-owner name on the rear of the front book boards. Some light foxing on the first fly leaf page. Spine intact. Text body clean throughout the book. Over-all a good condition book. See photos for more information on condition. The Devil Rides Outside a "staggering novel." The first novel of John H. Griffin, it written during the author's decade of blindness following an injury suffered during the closing days of World War II. As Time Magazine described it, The Devil Rides Outside "has some things relatively rare in U.S. letters: energy, earnestness and unashamed religious fervor." Written as a diary, the novel relates the intellectual and spiritual battles of a young American musicologist who is studying Gregorian chant in a French Benedictine monastery. Even though he is not Catholic, he must live like the monks, sleeping in a cold stone cell, eating poor food, sharing latrine duties. His dreams rage with memories of his Paris mistress; his days are spent being encouraged by the monks to seek God. He takes up residence outside the monastery after an illness, but he finds the village a slough of greed and pettiness and temptation. Indeed, as the French proverb says, "the devil rides outside the monastery walls. The dust jacket is repaired with acid free stick tape.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Black boards,Corners slightly bumped.DJ has closed trs. Some browning to DJ spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Here is the graphically drawn portrait of a man torn asunder by God and the devil, by the longings of the soul and the demands of the flesh. Size: 21cm. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second edition. Very good in good dustwrapper. Former owner's name inside, little wear on spine-ends, slightly bumped corners, few pieces missing from dustwrapper, (2. 5x1. 5 and smaller), chipping and wear on the edges and folds, dustwrapper's spine is browned, 3. 5inch tear on the fold and some smaller ones.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Printing. Signed and inscribed by author on second page. Second printing. Hard cover and dust jacket published by Smiths in 1952. Black covers with off-white lettering on spine. Top and side edges of pages have foxing, as well as the endpapers. Spine is slightly cocked. Book is in good condition. Dust jacket is tanned along spine, has a tear at top in back, and is worn at top of spine. DJ has some scrapes along front edge and is in good condition. 8vo, 596 pages, 1.7 lb.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 596 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the more common US edition. 8vo. 511pp. Purple cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Top edge dust soiled and with a touch of bruising to two corner tips. Very good indeed in the handsome Barnett Freedman-designed pictorial dust wrapper, non-price-clipped, but a little chafed and chipped at the extremities with two short closed tears and a little accompanying creasing. The author's first novel, a mystery set in a post-war French monastery and in-part inspired by his own conversion to Roman Catholicism a year prior to publication. In 1961 Griffin published his most celebrated work, 'Black Like Me', an account of his efforts to pass as a black man in the Deep South in the late fifties to study racial equality and segregation first-hand.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. barnett freedman (illustrator). 1953 hardcover with dust jacket. 1st UK edition. The book is in near fine condition. clean, square and tight. corners sharp. bookseller label on inside front cover. The price clipped dust jacket is in near fine condition. clean and bright. bumped to extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 596 pages. Fine Hardcover With Illustrated Good DJ. Black cloth, White spine title. No Wear. Clean Unmarked. Perfect binding and hinges. The DJ got some edge wear and soiling. 8.25"x5.6"x1.7". be30309.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First English edition. Fine, spine and edges of the boards slightly faded, in a near fine dustwrapper with modest edgewear and minor chipping to the spine. The first edition was published in the U.S. by an obscure Texas publishing house, and is seldom found on the market.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Green cloth library rebind hardback. Well read copy with some spine wear. Colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with tiny tears around the extremities and two small tidemarks on the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Collins First Edition 1953. NOT ex-library. Jacket a little sunned to faces and spine. A few small tears to edges and a little loss to head and tail of spine. Some spotting and mottling to reverse. Not price-clipped. Purple cloth boards slightly sunned to spine and edges. Edges a little scuffed and corners bumped. Slight spotting to faces of page block. Partial cracking to front hinge but binding firm. Previous owner's name to half-title (faint pencil). Text clean and bright with no further markings. Jacket design by Barnett Freedman (Ub4).

paperback. Condition: Good. Hardback. With dust jacket. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Ft Worth, Smiths Inc. First edition octavo. A fine bright copy in dj.

Half title; upper edge spotted. Orig. purple buckram; v. sl. marked. Yellow & red pictorial d.w., unclipped; a couple of tiny chips, upper edge spotted, but a lovely bright copy. Dustjacket by Barnett Freedman. John Howard Griffin, 1920-1980, is justly remembered for Black Like Me and his actions rescuing Austrian Jews from the Nazis. However, his first novel, in which a musicologist visits a monastery to study Gregorian chanting and there encounters a devilish figure, is involving and has shades of Huysmans.

Cloth. Condition: Collectible; Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. WONDERFULLY INSCRIBED BY JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND MAXWELL GEISMAR (PRE-EMINENT LITERARY CRITIC WHO, AMONG OTHER THINGS, WROTE THE INTRODUCTION TO "SOUL ON ICE"): "FOR MAX--THE BEST THING TO ME --THE VERY BEST THING-- ABOUT THIS OLD BOOK IS THAT IT INTRODUCED ME TO YOU AND ANNE-- AND THAT WAS ENOUGH--THE REST FOLLOWED. HOWARD". A solid copy to boot of the 1952 stated 1st edition of the first published book by the author of "Black Like Me". Tight and VG (with light spotting at the panels) in a bright, price-intact, VG- dustjacket, with light chipping at the spine ends, tips and flap-folds. Still though, a very presentable copy. Thick octavo, 596 pgs. Signed by Author. Signed.