Offshore by Fitzgerald, First Edition (41 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Text is bright, clean and free of any extraneous markings or sign of previous ownership.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition Pbk Thus. 1989 Magnum paperback, first thus; Good; name on fep, lightly tanning pages; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Grey boards with gilt titles to the spine. Jacket is price clipped. Jacket has some fade to the spine. Name and address inscription to the top of the front end paper. 1st impression. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. dj w/unclipped price, in mylar; red c w/gilt titles; satin marker; 440 clean, unmarked pages+catalogue.

First edition, first printing New and bright in like pictorial dust jacket with crisp bright text throughout. Three books in one. Quite attractive.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Cloth. First edition thus. First printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A tight copy, new and unread, without any marks or defects. Dust jacket is clean and bright with price of $23 intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Mark on inside cover and FFEP. Light wear to d-j.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Good condition first edition hardback. Free of owner's marks. Spine slightly canted. Some soiling top textblock and hints of foxing. Price-clipped. Dust jacket very good with some bumps and short intact tears and thin stain line along top edge.In protective archival sleeve.

Hardcover first edition - First US printing. Fitzgerald's concise but sympathetic third novel, winner of the Booker Prize in 1979 when it was first published in the UK. Set in the 1960s this is "a dry, genuinely funny novel, set among the houseboat community who rise and fall with the tide of the Thames on Battersea Reach. Living between land and water, they feel as if they belong to neither." 141 pp. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (small bumps to front cover of dj, crease to front flapj).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1st printing hardback in price clipped dustjacket, with unfaded spine. Book and jacket both in near fine condition with gift inscription to front endpaper. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. I am happy to supply scans.(B92).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 141. Original publishers grey cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. A dry, genuinely funny novel, set among the houseboat community who rise and fall with the tide of the Thames on Battersea Reach. ISBN: 9780006542568 Fine in near fine dust jacket, with faint creasing at edges and very slight sunning at spine. Excellent condition. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Very good book in a very good unclipped dust jacket. Grey cloth book has foxing and soiling to page edges, toning to the upper cloth edge and tapping to the spine edges. The jacket has light edgewear with a small tear to the upper spine and upper front flap fold. Winner of the Booker Prize.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First American edition of this delectable Booker Prize novel.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Dust Jacket Only. Good with small tears, protective sleeve. 4.50 Pounds Sterling on flyleaf. [First Edition].

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First. 141pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w. Ne York: Holt, (1979). First American Edition.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 141 pages. The author's third novel. Winner of the Booker Prize. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a price clipped dust jacket with light fading to the spine.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 141 pages. The author's third novel. Winner of the Booker Prize. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a dust jacket with light fading to the spine.

First edition, first printing. Booker Prize winner. Near fine with production fault to rear board/paste down in near fine, spine faded dustjacket.

First edition, first printing. Booker Prize winner. Fine in near fine, spine faded dustjacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine+. 1st American Edition/1st Printing (complete number line on cp page). SIGNED and inscribed by Fitzgerald on a handwritten notecard attached to title page. Light foxing to top edges. $15.95 price on DJ flap; mylar protected. Relatively scarce signature of Booker Prize winner. Booker was awarded for 'Offshore'. (Bonus: Comes with a unsigned fine 1st American Counterpoint hardcover copy of Fitzgerald's "The Knox Brothers"). Note: No International orders for this item. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

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).

8vo. Fine in near fine dust jacket with very slight fading at spine. Excellent condition. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.Ê First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Flamingo. UK. 1988. 'Offshore' by Penelope Fitzgerald. This book is a Paperback and is a First edition in this format. Originally published in 1979 by William Collins & Co in 1979. 'Offshore' by Penelope Fitzgerald won the Booker Prize in 1979 and was her third novel. This copy has one small library stamp to the title page. The covers are a little creased. Sellotape has been used to between the back of the front cover and front endpaper to secure the binding which is good. Someone has cut out a small newspaper article about the author and stuck it to the first page. The contents are otherwise clean and unmarked.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A very smart first edition of Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize winning novel Offshore, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, first impression. A novel that explores the emotional restlessness of houseboat dwellers that was inspired by the most difficult years of Fitzgerald's own life when she lived on an old Thames sailing barge. Written by Penelope Mary Fitzgerald, an English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In the original grey cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light shelf wear and light sunning to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. book.

1st U.K. edition of her Booker Prize winner Near fine/near fine (price-clipped dj has the usual slight fading along the spine, and also has some very faint staining at the top of the back flap, not affecting the book at all).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this Booker Prize-winning novel from Penelope Fitzgerald. It recalls Fitzgerald's time spent on boats in Battersea by the Thames. The novel centralises around the idea of liminality, expanding upon it to include the notion: 'liminal people,' people who do not belong to the land or the sea, but somewhere in-between. The epigraph, "che mena il vento, e che batte la pioggia, e che s'incontran con si aspre lingue" (whom the wind drives, or whom the rain beats, or those who clash with such bitter tongues) comes from Canto XI of Dante's Inferno. In a cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Some light bumping to the boards. Dustwrapper has some sunning and marks, along with a couple of chips. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, with just a few instances of foxing. Very Good. book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A very smart copy of Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize winning novel Offshore, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition first impression copy of this work.Offshore is a novel that explores the emotional restlessness of houseboat dwellers that was inspired by the most difficult years of Fitzgerald's own life when she lived on an old Thames sailing barge.Penelope Fitzgerald was a novelist, poet and biographer who was listed in The Times fifty greatest British writers since 1945.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. A previous owner inscription to the front and rear free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper that is lovely. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine, no inscriptions. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, without the usual spine fading and not price clipped (£4.50). First UK Edition, First Printing. A lovely copy of the 1979 Booker winner.

First edition. Winner of the 1979 Booker Prize. Based on her real-life experiences living on a houseboat. INSCRIBED BY FITZGERALD on title page, "Rolland Comstock -/ best wishes, July 1989/ Penelope." Fine in bright, nearly fine dust jacket with few tiny tears to upper flap edges and spine gently toned.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author. Hint of spotting to top edge, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper. Signed by Author(s).