Partisans by Matthiessen Peter (44 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good condition, some creasing to covers, age tanning.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Solid copy with a light spine lean and bright covers show light wear.

Condition: Very Good. 1966. Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear and yellowing to page edges. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1966. Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear and yellowing to page edges. . . . .

Hardback. 1st. Jacket spine is sunned end papers slightly browned otherwise a very good copy pp206. book.

206pp. 8vo. Original boards in chipped dustwrapper. A slight mark on foredge, otherwise a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 206pp. Blue cloth boards with silver titles to spine in protected unclipped dusstwrapper. Small ownership inscription to top of ffep. Boards worn and rubbed with chip to front top at leading edge. Wrapper chipped with some small losses and repairs to spine extremities. Eps tanned. Textblock otherwise clean tight and bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover. 206 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Secker & Warburg, London, 1956. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Spine has mild fading. Dust jacket has moderate rubbing. Edges of dust jacket have minor chipping. The dust jacket has been price-clipped. Edges of pages are mildly foxed. Pages are reasonably tanned. Previous owner's name ink-stamped. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; General; Inventory No: 13120145. The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale.

First edition. Hardcover. A little offsetting on the endpapers, otherwise very good in good price-clipped dustjacket with a few small professionally closed tears and the spine lettering faded from red to orange (still perfectly visible). Author's second novel.

Condition: Used. UK: Collins-Harvill, 1990 Used First published in 1955, this "first-rate psychological thriller" tells of a young American journalist's dangerous pursuit of a deposed Communist leader down the back streets of Paris.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. 1st edition. Dust jacket shows wear, chipping & open tears, otherwise good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Avon Books #753. Thriller. Very good+ condition. Faint crease on lower left of spine-edge on front cover. Small stain on upper half of spine. Minor staining/water damage on the last few pages and inside back cover.

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition/1st Printing Thus. (August 1987) -Vintage trade softcover reprint of 1955 original. SIGNED by author on title page (signature only). Author's second book. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Ed. VG+ to Near Fine in pictorial wraps with purple & red lettering & cover art picturing a guy looking down at a dead naked blonde in a bed with a sheet covering her. Mystery, Vintage Paperback.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. His second novel, the story of a young American expatriate in Paris just after World War II, a novel which perhaps takes on more significance in light of Matthiessen's recent admissions to having been employed by the CIA while he was in Paris himself during those years. 178 pp. Very good in a fair dust jacket. (ghost of a tape mark on rear endpaper, minor shelfwear, some chipping to the dj, loss of about 1/4 inch at the ends of the spine, usual sunning to the small title block on the spine, original price of $3.00 still present.) Overall, a reasonably attractive copy of a rather hard to find book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Mass market paperback. Pages toned, faded edge stain with a crease on the cover, very good.

hardcover, Condition: Good, Viking, NY, 1955, 8vo., cloth, 178pp., ex-lib.- no external marks, but stamps, foxe3d covers, G $.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The author's second book. First edition. Ex-library copy with typical markings, else very good in tan and blue cloth. No dust jacket.

8 x 5, wraps, 184 pp, minor wear and soil else vg. Reprint of original ed, but BOLDY SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition of author's second book, a novel set in Paris in the 1940s. Fine but for one slightly bumped corner. Dust jacket VG, with small chips and tears to edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD MINUS: Very Good Copy of the First Edition, with wear to cloth at front bottom right corner. Dust Jacket is Very Good Minus, with minor chipping at top and bottom of spine and front Jacket corners. Location: V29.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good with good dust jacket. Name on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is worn at spine tips and corners and is rubbed along top and bottom edges with light damp staining along fore edges and a 1/2 inch edge tear.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Good- in boards. Ex-library with the usual markings. Spine is rolled. Remainder of front flap from dust jacket is attached to front pastedown. Minor wear to boards. ; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. No Jacket. First Edition. New York. 1955. Viking Press. 1st Edition. Very Good. No Dustjacket. 206 pages. hardcover. keywords: American Literature. DESCRIPTION - A novel of partisan politics in Paris in the early 1950s and loosely based on Matthiessen's own brief experience with the CIA, in which he was asked to keep tabs on a young French communist leader during the period when Matthiessen was living in Paris and co-founded the Paris Review. inventory #5574.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo. 178pp. A very good copy in very good dj. Long crease in dj on front cover at the base nicked at the crease, closed tear.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Dust Jacket, Good, Abrasians at top of Spine and corners, Abrasions. (Dust Jacket Only, Book Not Included!).

Hardback. No Dustjacket. First Edition. A very small neat name in ink on the front pastedown endpaper, which a nickel could cover up, otherwise a tight bright unmarked copy in Very Good to Near Fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Printing. Slight spine lean toward the book's fore-edge but spine is sound. Previous owner's name stamped on the front pastedown (inside front cover), otherwise pages are completely clean and just slightly tanned. Exterior covers and spine are also spotless except for some scraping along the bottom edges of front cover and spine. No bumped corners. Slight tanning to top edge of spine. The dust jacket is not price-clipped. There is a light sticker scar to the top of the inside front flap. Slight soiling to back panel. Some compressions wrinkles close to the top and bottom edges of the front and back panels. There are also some small chips and tears, the deepest of which is about 1/3", and a couple small water spots in lower right corner of the back panel. (Note: Photos may show magnified dust, a flash reflection, or color washout.) Paypal always welcome. We pack all our books with care and ship in cardboard boxes or priority envelopes secured with cardboard. Additional photos emailed upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8 x 5.5", two-tone boards, 178pp, extremities lightly bumped and worn else a nice, clean copy in an edge-worn, spine-sunned dustjacket. FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Near Fine dust jacket. Faint foxing on bottom text block edge.