Men Darkness by Hanley James (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Books shipped within 24 hours. 1st Edition Stated No marks noted in text. Binding is sound. No dust jacket. Cloth boards are lightly stained. 5 Short Stories included are: 1.) Narrative -- 2.) Feud -- 3.) John Muck -- 4.) Rubbish -- 5.) Greaser Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . James (Joseph) Hanley (3 September 1897 - 11 November 1985) was a British novelist, short story writer, and playwright from Kirkdale, Liverpool, Lancashire, of Irish descent. Hanley came from a seafaring family and spent two years at sea himself, during World War I. He published his first novel Drift in 1930. In the 1930s and 1940s his novels and short stories focussed on seamen and their families, and included Boy (1931), the subject of an obscenity trial. After World War II there was less emphasis on the sea in his works. While frequently praised by critics, Hanley's novels did not sell well. In the late 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s he wrote plays, mainly for the BBC, for radio and then for television, and also for the theatre. He returned to the novel in the 1970s. His last novel, A Kingdom, was published in 1978, when he was eighty. His brother Gerald was also a novelist.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Knopf , NY , 1932 First Edition Stated 298 page Hardcover Lacking the dust Jacket Good only copy with soiling to the covers, lightly bumped at corners, small stain in the top edge of the top margin of the first 75 pages. Lacking the jacket. See Photos clphE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with toning to the page ends, toning to the spine, publisher review slip laid inside, and light edgewear. No dust jacket. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 297 pages. A collection of five stories. First American edition (first printing). A very good copy in the red and black variant dust jacket with loss at the spine head affecting text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First UK Edition. Preface by John Cowper Powys. VG+. Hardcover; black cloth; no jacket; 323 pp.; red topstain slightly faded; slight rubbing to the cloth and edges, else a clean, tight, very good or better copy. Protected in mylar.

8vo. pp 128. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered black on spine. Very good. Decent copy.

Condition: VG. London 1931 1st John Lane. Sm.8vo., 323pp., black cloth. VG, a bit of soiling on front free blanks, no DJ.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 323 pages, 7 1/2" x 5", black cloth with gilt printing to the spine. Slight bump down the middle of the spine, spine ends and corners are rubbed.Signed by the author on the front free endpage. (Also signed by a previous owner, neatly, on the front pastedown and also the title page.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Limited/Numbered. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies.Smaller version of dust jacket tipped-in by publisher. Couple corners lightly bumped. Single library bookplate to front paste down, with no other markings. Signed by Author(s).

xiv+322pp. 8vo. Original cloth in chipped dustwrapper with piece missing from upper backstrip affecting some text. Light foxing to edges. Stamp on ffe. A very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj) Warn[?] (illustrator). First American Edition. [beautiful copy with just a touch of fading to cloth along edges of covers, minor bumping to bottom rear corner; jacket shows a bit of wear at spine ends, but is generally just as nice as the book itself]. The first book by this British writer (born in Liverpool to Irish parents) to be published in the United States; its stories, like much of his early fiction, are centered around either the sea or the Irish Catholic working class of Liverpool. In his Preface, John Cowper Powys writes that he has "never read anything in fiction that brings the abominable suffering that goes on all the time among the exploited of the earth so savagely and unsparingly home." Hanley also wrote many novels with a Welsh background (he lived mostly in Wales from 1931 until 1963), and supported himself by writing plays for radio, television, and the stage during the 1960s, before returning to the novel in the 1970s. If you can supply the name of the artist for this striking dust jacket (the signature is there, beginning with "Wa," but I just can't make it out), I'll knock $10 off the price.

Hardcover. First Edition. 323 pages. Preface by John Cowper Powys. Limited to 105 copies on specially made rag paper. Gibbs, James Hanley: A Bibliography A5a. First edition (first printing). Minor edge wear and light toning to end papers thus a fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Fine, tipped in wrapper of the trade edition designed by Alan Odle; with additional spine label tipped in at the rear. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Copy number 70.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. Faint spotting else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight fading on the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First edition (so stated). 8vo. Preface by John Cowper Powys. Jacket illustration by Alan Odle. Original gilt stamped black cloth, top edge stained red. Dust jacket (unclipped; few nicks, 2 short tears). Very good. No signatures or bookplates.

First edition. xi + 287 pp. Very near fine in very good plus dust jacket with shallow chipping to spine and a tear to the top edge of the rear flap fold. Preface by John Cowper Powys.

First edition. 8vo. [xii], 298 pp. Cloth in dustwrapper, very good. (61662). Preface by John Cowper Powys.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Hanley to Joseph Greene on ffep. Stated First Edition. Gray cloth boards stamped in burgundy and black on spine, with a black pictorial on the front cover (same vignette on title page). Cloth shows some foxing/discoloration on spine and around edges. Interior is clean and unmarked. xi, 297, [2] pages. Dust jacket is edgeworn; chipped around spine ends and corners; some color bleed in the lower-left corner of front panel; in an archival mylar sleeve. Inscribed to Joseph Greene, an early friend of Hanley's in Liverpool, to whom he also dedicated his first novel, Drift. ''To my friend Joseph Greene / with all [good wishes?] / James Hanley''. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Advance Review Copy. Small Octavo. 128pp.,with preface by John Cowper Powys; red printed paper covered boards; upper hinge starting, but strong. Light wear at spine ends, small loss to head. A very nice copy in glassine wrapper protected in mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good (Plus). Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. An collection of five stories intended by the publisher to introduce Hanley as a major, if controversial, new talent; Knopf had published in the same year his novel "Boy," which had been withdrawn as obscene in England. First published in England by John Lane in 1931. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First American Edition (stated First Edition). Less common than the English. Light gray cloth binding, with titling on the spine inred and black; the front cover reproduces the powerful image of the dustjacket. Clean text; xii, 298 pages; with a Preface by the English philosopher/novelist John Cowper Powys (1872-1963). A sound copy, with some sunfade around the margins. Small set of initials by a previous-owner on the FFEP. The dustjacket is unclipped (although it is without a price; possible an advance review copy); it shows some chipping at the head and foot of the spine, which is a bit darkened. There are tape repairs on the reverse, which are not really apparent from the front of the jacket. In an archival plastic protector. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

8vo, 323pp. A very good hardback copy in papered boards and cloth spine. Boards have bumped and slightly frayed corners. Fore edges are tanned and slightly foxed. A light offsetting to endpapers.

Five stories. With a preface by John Cowper Powys. Blue boards, white buckram spine. Small mark on front endpaper, otherwise near fine in stained, torn original tissue. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1931. One of 105 numbered copies signed by the author. Alan Odle's striking design for the d/w of the trade edition is tipped-in as called for.