Disturbing Element by Xavier Herbert (22 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Spine is uncreased.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+/VG-. 1st Edition. Nice copy in an unclipped jacket that has corner wear and is in a new protective sleeve.

Condition: Good. 1963. First Published in GB. 271 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Sticker to spine. …

Condition: Good. 1963. First Published. 271 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to both panels and spine. Foxing overall.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Slight soiling and foxing of book block. A few marks back cover. Faint scratches on covers due to shelf wear. Foxing spots and white out inside front cover. Foxing spots inside back cover. Xavier Herbert is the Disturbing Element in the family he claimed never wanted him. Born into the brutal world of turn-of-the-century Western Australia, he was the son of a prospector turned engine driver, and grandson of a phoney nobleman turned camel-driver. Often comic, often tragic, Disturbing Element traces Herbert's life as he changes careers from pharmacist to doctor to writer. This is the story of an Australian literary legend written in his own classic style.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition. PRICE NOT CLIPPED.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ lightly rubbed at spine ends and edges with small abrasion to front panel. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 271 pages. Xavier Herbert's autobiography. …

271pp. 8vo. Original cloth . Very good in dustwrapper. Autobiographical short stories. First edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. VG+ Moderate age-toning to pages, otherwise an attractive copy, very clean throughout.

first edition 271pp NF (edges sl.soiled) in VG+ d/w (sl.soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,sml.sticker to cover).

HB PURPLE CLOTH FINE PP271 DW FINE 8VO An autobiographical novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 220x145x20mm+416g . . F W Cheshire. Melbourne. 1963. First Edition. 1st Printing. . Pp271. Decoration to front and back, with purple lettering to spine. In original dust jacket. Unclipped. Yellow endpapers. Slight Corners bumped. Slight shelf wear. Jacket Fore-edges slight wear, designed by Vane Lindesay. . . . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$11.60.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Previous Owners Insc.ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good in Mylar Sleeve. First Edition. A firm, clean book in a bright complete, protected dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. The life Xavier Herbert, a sailor, soldier, chemist, bacteriologist, anthropologist, union organiser, deep-sea diver and in the words of H G Wells "Here a is Master Writer!". Xavier has spent most of his life in the North of Australia. Box #1.…

1st ed. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), reverse side jacket & top edge flaps minimally foxed (flap not clipped), vertical faint crease front & rear free flyleaves, edges little foxed, minor edgewear, non-author written name. 271 pp. First edition. An autobiographical account of the first 24 years of the life of Xavier Herbert, the controversial Australian novelist. He recounts his birth on the northwest coast of Western Australia, the son of a prospector turned horse-breaker turned railway engine driver, and his unlikely career as a pharmaceutical chemist, and conversion to Catholicism.…

Condition: Very Good. Glossy card cover. A firm clean book, 271 pages.

Condition: Very Good. London, Angus & Robertson, 1963. 8vo. (7),+ (blank),+ 271 pp. A few underlinings in pen. Publ. cloth with dustwrapper. From the library of Sven Lindqvist with its stamp. The autobiography of the Australian writer Xavier Herbert (1901?1984). He led a varied life and was also a sailor, chemist, bacteriologist, anthropologist and deep sea diver. Hardcover / Hardback.…

1st ed., 272pgs, octavo, orig. decorative cloth, d/w design by Vane Lindesay, V.good copy. Autobiographical.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Publisher's review slip laid in. Purple and white boards, with purple lettering. Head and tail of spine lightly bumped. Board edges lightly discoloured. Binding is strong and tidy. Page edges are discoloured and a little foxed, otherwise in good condition. Dust wrapper is bright and lightly rubbed. Spine discoloured. Edges thumbed and showing some light wear and tear, otherwise in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound. …

Melbourne: Angus & Robertson, (1963). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (8, 272pp.). 1st ed. Fine.

Melbourne: F.W. Cheshire, (1963). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (8, 272pp.). 1st ed. Author's signed presentation copy. Fine.