God Likes Plain by Linklater Eric (15 results)

Condition: Good. 1935. 2nd Impression. 317 pages. No dust jacket. Grey 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. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards have some wear, toning. Content has light toning. No DJ.

Condition: Good. 1935. First Edition. 317 pages. Dust jacket over patterned cloth. Deckled edges. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Notable stain to rear pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and light marking to boards. Moderate tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Books has a backward lean. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Mild foxing. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Heavy rubbing and marking all over.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st printing; dj w/lite chipping, clipped price, in mylar; decorative c w/red titles; lite shelf rubbing; 317 clean, unmarked pages+publisher's lisitngs.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. None (illustrator). 1st. Basic Details BuyByeBooks Reference:K378ab ISBN: Book Title:God Likes Them Plain Edition:1st Published Date:1935 Cover:Hardback Price:£12.95 Stock:1 Postage & Packaging:C Contributors Author(s):Eric Linklater Publisher:Jonathan Cape Illustrator:none Physical Attributes Dimensions (H x W x D):19.90 x 13.50 x 0.00 Number of Pages:318 Dust Jacket:No Condition Cover Condition:Slight Wear Dust Jacket Condition:No Dust Jacket Binding:Excellent/Tight Page Condition:Excellent/Clean Good Colour Overall Condition:Very Good Categories Category(ies):Historical Fiction Images God Likes Them Plain Book Summary Summary:Rough fabric binding. Short stories. Additional Notes Notes:Covers badly stained at spine and across front bottom corner.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 317p. ; 20cm. Subjects: Short stories, English. 1 Kg.

Cloth Covered Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Eric Linklater's first volume of short stories. 217pp bound in patterned cloth boards, red lettering to top board and spine. Slight bumping to spine and corners, top edges dusty and light foxing to others, some marking to spine and former owner's name to endpaper, otherwise good copy. Unclipped DJ worn, grubby and frayed with some loss to spine and corners. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

First edition. 317 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with toned spine and light overall edgewear.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 317p. ; 20cm. Subjects: Short stories, English. 1 Kg.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: G++ DW. 1st Edition. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Text edges slightly spotted. Dw Book is in only good (that is, fair or average) condition with major signs of wear and/or age. 7s 6d net) hasvery slight loss to extremities. Top of spine bit stained. Spine a bit sunned. In loose polythene protector. With a publisher's slip "ADVANCE COPY FOR REVIEW"announcing publication on Novermber 25th.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First ed. Jacket in protective mylar.

Condition: Used - Good. First Edition. Bookstall stamp & owner's name on front free end paper; text clean; binding tight; dust jacket not price-clipped, but worn at edges, with loss at head & foot of browned spine; dj protected in removable clear film.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ink inscription front pastedown, advertisement leaves, fore edge lightly spotted, very good in clipped age-soiled dust jacket with sunned spine, several edge chips and two closed tears; 317 pages.

Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7 [8-10] 11-317 [318-320: blank] + 8-pages of publisher's ads, original gray buckram cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown, bottom edge of sheets untrimmed. First edition. Linklater's first collection of short fiction, a mixed collection of stories, including several excellent supernatural tales. Linklater is often praised for the light touch he brings to material that, at the same time, feels substantial and satisfying. The title story here is an ironic modern fairy tale about a medieval storyteller, a scoundrel who pursues only beautiful women, taking pity on them because God likes the plain ones. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1024. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 128-9. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). A fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket (priced 7/6 on the front flap) with wear at edges, tape mends at spine ends and corner tips, and some tanning, most noticeably to the spine panel. A presentable example of a scarce jacket. (#162015).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this humorous collection of short stories by Eric Linklater, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition. Bound in the publisher's cloth with the original dust wrapper and an extra dust wrapper included.Written by Scottish poet, historian and travel writer, Eric Linklater. 'God Likes them Plain' is Linklater's first collection of short stories, comprised of sixteen tales of various genres, from humour to fantasy. Some of these stories are set in the author's native Orkney, while others recall experiences of time spent in America and India. With the pictorial bookplate of Frederick S. Warner. Bound in the publisher's cloth with two original dust wrappers. Externally, excellent, with light bumping to the extremities and the odd mark to cloth. Scattered spotting to the fore edge. Dust wrapper is very good, with light edge wear and the odd mark. Light soiling, with some sunning to the spine, moreso to the outer wrap. A small clip to each flyleaf. Internally, firmly bound, with bright, clean pages. Very Good Indeed. book.