Golden Child by Fitzgerald Penelope, First Edition (16 results)

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First US trade paperback edition, published by Harper, 1999. A tale of intrigue set in a London museum, who would want to kill one of the junior members of the staff? First published in 1977, this is the first Harper paperback edition. 190 pages, 5-1/2" X 8-1/2". No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. No creases to the cover or spine. Text pages show age tanning, which would be common considering the paper used and age of the book. Not a remainder, not a library discard. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Mariner edition with full number line plucked as new from bookstore stock and kept bright, tight, and clean throughout. See photos.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Former library copy - with barcode, stamps, date due sticker, and library card in card pocket on first leaf; some edgewear, creasing/bumping to spine and corners. Copyright 1977 by Penelope Fitzgerald; First Mariner Books edition 1999.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 320 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing hardback in unclipped dustjacket. Book in VG/VG+ condition with no inscriptions, jacket with bleeding to inside front and some edgewear. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Am happy to supply scans.(K26).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Run of eight first editions, first printings and one early second impression; one signed; in Fine or Near Fine condition: The Golden Child, 1977; Offshore, 1979 (Winner of the Booker Prize); Human Voices, 1980; The Bookshop, 1980 second impression; At Freddie's, 1982; Innocence, 1986; The Gate of Angels, 1990 (signed to the title page by the author without dedication; The Blue Flower, 1995 (short stories); The Means of Escape, 2000. No previous owners' marks throughout; all in original cloth bindings with largely hard spine tips and sharp corners; very clean and tight end papers and text blocks throughout; not price clipped. Heavy set of 9 books will need additional postage. Signed by Author(s).

Dust-jacket only. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. 8vo. Dust-jacket only. Worn and frayed, not price-clipped, £4.95.

Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 159. [1]. Bound in midnight blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine. With the original pictorial black and gold dust-jacket. Unclipped dust-jacket, rubbed and peeling in places, and a few miniscule closed tears to edges and a small closed tear (3cm) to flap joint. Contents crisp, tight and free from annotations and inscriptions. Overall Very Good book in a Very Good dust-jacket. First novel by the Booker Prize winning author. Ostensibly a murder mystery set in the British Museum, The Golden Child is a witty satire critiquing the bureaucracy of the art world.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Near Fine: First edition, first printing; very clean and bright spine and boards with four sharp corners; no previous owner's marks or gift dedication; very clean and tight text block; spotting to page edges only. Dust jacket condition: Very Good plus: very clean and bright front panel with tiny gold spots from foil beneath on black ground; rear gold foil panel has no spots, just crease to bottom edge; nicks to top and bottom of black spine, but gilt letters unaffected (see images); not price clipped.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22 cm.); blue paper-covered boards titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 159pp. Top corners lightly pushed; Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $7.95) with rubbing to the jacket edges; short closed tear and tiny white scuff to the front panel; Very Good+. "The glittering tresure of ancient Garamantia is a subtle and spectacular snare. Delivered in mysterious circumstances to London, the Golden Child lures thousands of spectators and lays a net of intrigue and murder around functionaries at every level of the great museum." (from the dustjacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First. Dark blue cloth boards titles in gilt on spine, pictorial dust jacket in black and gold in protective plastic sleeve, cream epps, 159pps, dust jacket a little worn at the edges otherwise a clean tight copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First edition, first impression in Fine condition. Very clean and bright original cloth binding with gilt letters to the spine; hard spine tips and sharp corners to the boards; no previous owner's marks; very clean and tight text block with no spotting or sunning. Dust jacket condition: Near Fine: very clean and bright black and silver wrapper with no fading; not price clipped (£4.95).

A first edition, first printing published by Duckworth in 1977. A fine book without inscriptions in a very good (or better) unclipped wrapper with a little creasing to the top left of the rear panel. Author's first book.