East Wind by Compton Mackenzie (17 results)

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content has light toning with foxing to the endpapers. DJ has tatty edges with fading to the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 658 pages. 1st edition hardback. No jacket. Moderate wear to cover extremities and cloth fraying to head and tail of spine, with several light marks to covers. Slight bowing to front board. Previous owner name and date to ffep (first interior page). --- General information: please email for any more information or condition photos. There may be other minor faults not included here, but this description should include all important points and convey accurately the overall conditon of the book(s). We are happy to give a more detailed description (by volume where applicable) on request. Posted next day (Mon-Fri) from the UK. We normally post by Royal Mail 1st class within the UK, but may use a slower service for books over 1kg or multiple orders or a tracked service for higher value orders. We normally post by tracked mail for overseas deliveries, and may request additional postage (at cost) for heavier books (buyers always have the option to cancel the order if we do so).

1st edition. Previous owner's signature, minor library marks remain internally. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 658 p.; 21 cm. Subjects: English 20th Century Fiction. Fiction Literature. Literary Fiction. 20th Century Authors. Great Britain. Europe. Genre: fiction. 3 Kg.

Cloth. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. " This is No. 55 of the first American edition and is presented with the compliments of the Publisher", so stated on the half title page. Blue cloth with dark blue spine wrap band with gilted rule borders and gilted tiles to the spine. This copy is VG+ in a Good, price clipped DJ . Exterior is rich and clean with a minimal amount of sunning to the edges and spine , and only a hint of edge wear. Inside has PO armorial BP on inside front board and a small bookseller stamp, otherwise unmarked, clear, and firmly bound. Minimal/modest even toning . DJ has a 6", tape repaired closed tear to the front spine hinge, significant chipping to the edges, and moderate sunning to the flaps. 504 pp.SCARCE as a numbered edition.

1st edition. Previous owner's signature, minor library marks remain internally. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 658 p.; 21 cm. Subjects: English 20th Century Fiction. Fiction Literature. Literary Fiction. 20th Century Authors. Great Britain. Europe. Genre: fiction. 1 Kg.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition book. Includes a priceclipped dust jacket with moderate loss and fading. Internal contents are clear and neatly aligned.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. "The East Wind" by English author Compton MacKenzie is a classic in romantic fiction First American Edition with a dustjacket published in 1937 by Dodd, Mead, and Co. in Binghamton, NY. Other features include a neat pen signature on the front endpapers and a certified editorial copy stamp on that same page. Please check the photos and ask questions Condition: "Book-(FN)(Fine)-Covers and binding have minor to moderate amounts of staining and/or soiling and the boards have tanning and the front board has a couple barely noticeable water stains. The interior pages are mostly off-white with only light amounts of tanning and foxing with no tears and none loose or missing. Covers, boards, binding, spine, and interior overall have excellent presentation and are fully and firmly intact! Dustjacket-GD/VG(Good/Very Good)-Has tears and frays along the edges as well as some tanning but the flaps are nice and overall the dustjacket presents well!".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1937 1st reprint, 8vo., 658pp., small address on rear endpaper, good , green cloth, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Gilt and blue decorated dust jacket. Very good dust jacket, spine slightly darkened, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, light edge wear, near fine overall, top edge lightly foxed, very lightly agetoned to page edges.

Condition: Bueno. London 1937. Rich and Cowan. 658 pp. 20x15. Tela. Últimas hojas afectadas por humedad, no impide su lectura. En Inglés.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Condition: Good: The East Wind of Love, 1940 reprint; The South Wind, 1942 new impression; West To North, 1940 first edition with dust jacket; The North Wind of Love, 1944 first edition with dust jacket. No previous owners' marks or gift dedications throughout; boards clean and straight with decorative gilt wind gauge imprint to front covers; text blocks clean and tight with no spotting or sunning to pages; dusty top edges. Both dust jackets have losses, tears and marks; only the last title is not price clipped (10s 6d). Additional postage will be requested for four heavy books, as Abe quote is just for one book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1940 chatto edition on green cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. All 4 books Very Good or better in Good or better jackets. All First U.S Printings. The West Wind has a hand written signed inscription from Mackenzie to the previous owner on Island of Barra, Outer Hebrides stationary, pasted to the first endpaper. Easton Shelves. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. 1937. Reprinted. 658 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Tape to edges. Pen inscription and stamp to front flap. Water staining to front panel. Light foxing and tanning overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Fine in a very good or better dust jacket with light rubbing along the spine. Jacket art by Bip Pares.

Two volumes. 8vo. (viii), 296; (iv), 362 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets, early gift inscription to the front free endpaper of volume I, signed by Mackenzie on both title pages. Sunning plus some wear with losses to the jacket spines, else a decent set. First published in 1937.

Condition: Very Good. A first edition, first printing published by Rich and Cowan in 1937. A very good book with some wear to the board edges. SIGNED and inscribed to the wife of the author Grant Richards to the front endpaper by Mackenzie and dated. In a good unclipped wrapper with some tape reinforcement to the head of the spine. Some chipping. Very rare signed.