Learning Swim by Swift Graham (175 results)

Condition: Very Good. 1752481519. 7/14/2025 8:25:19 AM.

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 tan to the page edges/pages . Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers . Minor shelf wear.

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. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.

Reissue, 1985. Pages yellowed; otherwise a tidy copy in tight binding. Dust jacket not price-clipped; small, thin stain at top edge of front panel. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Very Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 144p illustrated card cover, very good Language: English.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Gut. 223 Seiten; Cambridge - 1st. 1995 : Graham Swift - tb KO-Q3BB-LB6H Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 283.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. | S&S remainder stamp on bottom edge, else fine in dustjacket.

octavo paperback (VG+);all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Stiff pictorial wrapps, black, pink lettering. 189pp. Trade paperback, stated first printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Thus. 146pp - blue cloth - ex-library - lightly soiled - usual library stamps and labels - edges slightly tanned - slight lean to spine - dustwrapper is lightly soiled - slight bumps to edges.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. 12mo. pp 146, (8). Colour illustrated card wraps/pb with black lettering at spine. Signed presentation copy, message reads, "To Malcolm [Bradbury], Happy Days! Graham Swift, Cambridge July '90". Also signed by previous owner, Malcolm Bradbury. ISBN: 0330287702 Front hinge very lightly rubbed, some light spotting at top edge of content, spine and content very slightly faded. VG+. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st U.S. edition Near fine/near fine (rem. mark (little man) on bottom edge).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. All three books are first impressions - "Waterland" (1983) and "Out of This World" (1988) are true first editions; "Learning to Swim" is the second hardback edition, published by Picador (1993). ***All three books in near fine condition in near fine dustwrappers. "Waterland" has a bookplate on the front free endpaper. ***For detailed descriptions of each book, please see the individual listings which are still on ABE. ***310 pages / 208 pages / 146 pages respectively. ***'Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born 4 May 1949) is an English writer. Born in London, England, he was educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York. Some of Swift's books have been filmed, including "Waterland" (1992), "Shuttlecock" (1993), "Last Orders" (1996) and "Mothering Sunday" (2021). His novel "Last Orders" was joint-winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a controversial winner of the 1996 Booker Prize, owing to the many similarities in plot and structure to William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying". ***'"Waterland" is a 1983 novel by Graham Swift, set in the Fenland of eastern England. It won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 1992, it was adapted into a film, starring Jeremy Irons. "Waterland" is concerned with the nature and importance of history as the primary source of meaning in a narrative. For this reason, it is associated with new historicism. "Waterland" can also be said to fall under the category of postmodern literature. It has characteristics associated with postmodern literature, such as a fragmented narrative style, where events are not told in chronological order. An unreliable narrator is also present. Major themes in the novel include storytelling and history, exploring how the past leads to future consequences.' (Wiki) ***'Here at last is a great modern English novel with both a haunting sense of locality and a universal dimension and range. The Fenland of Graham Swift's book is not just a superb evocation of place, but also a vision of England and the strange, stubborn English temperament.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper of "Waterland") ***A small collection of first impressions of three of Graham Swift's earlier works in near fine collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good +. 189 p. 22 cm. Quarter grey cloth with black paper boards. In dustjacket. Ink stamp on lower edge. Front flap price clipped. Inscribed by author on title page.

Quarter Cloth. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, 1982. First edition. 8vo. Light gray cloth over dark gray boards, with dark gray lettering on spine, matching dark gray endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, 189 pp. Graham Swift writes movingly of the enclosed worlds in which we confine our lives, of hotel rooms and marriage beds of claustrophobic relationships, of ghosts from the past which hold the present and future hostage and he also presents the hopeful images of escape and redemption. Remainder. Slight sunning on outer edges of dust jacket, but this is a new, unread book, in near fine dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover.

Quarter Cloth. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. New York, NY, Poseidon Press, 1982. First edition. 8vo. Light gray cloth over dark gray boards, with dark gray lettering on spine, matching dark gray endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, 189 pp. Graham Swift writes movingly of the enclosed worlds in which we confine our lives, of hotel rooms and marriage beds of claustrophobic relationships, of ghosts from the past which hold the present and future hostage and he also presents the hopeful images of escape and redemption. Wrinkle on back of dust jacket, but this is a new, unread book, in near fine dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover.

Fine - illus. wraps. | First pub. London, 1982. 1st U.S. paper edition. Binding is PB.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st American Edition Remainder stamp to bottom page edges.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket first edition.

First edition. Hardcover. Top edge slightly foxed, otherwise fine in fine dustjacket. In an attractive Fred Marcellino designed dustjacket.

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

First edition. Hardcover. First printing The first collection of short stories from the Booker Prize winning author of "Last Orders." A clean near fine copy with the usual remainder mark to the bottom of the page edges in a near fine dust jacket.

146pp. 8vo. A very good copy in like dustwrapper. Reissue. First published 1982.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 189 pages, remainder mark bottom edge , price clipped. Record # 3942.

Hardcovers. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First US edition, first prnt. Publisher's remainder stamp on the bottom edge; otherwise, an unead copy in Fine conditioin in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Swift's second book and first story collection.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First American Edition. Swift's fourth book and first collection of short stories. Fine in fine dustjacket.