Golden Child by Fitzgerald Penelope, First Edition (14 results)

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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 nine 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).

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.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. 8vo. Gilt lettered black cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Fitzgerald's first book of fiction after two biographies. A crisp copy with wear to edges and scuffing to the sensitive foil jacket on the rear panel. Still an almost near fine copy,

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.

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.