Rainbow Fish by Bates Ralph (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards have some wear, some age tone. Content has light toning. No DJ.

Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ++. Early Reprint. Bound in light blue cloth, stamped in black in a handsome blue, gold and white dust jacket. A 242 pp. 7th printing, published the same year as the first edition. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing. A VG+ copy in a VG dust jacket with the price of $2.00 intact on the front flap. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, as pictured a very good hardcover, in a very good condition dust jacket, tiny edge tear spine jacket , 2.00 price present , gently read no names by or marks,

Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition. 1st Edition 1937. Four short novels. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The complete wrapper is very good++ and bright. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. White rear age toned and marked. Spine lightly age toned. Price clipped. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18882.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ink INSCRIBED/SIGNED on ffep. Book: VG+. DJ: VG+. An especially nice clean unmarked bright tight copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 376. Original publishers grey cloth lettered blue at spine and cover. Very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket. Issued without front endpaper.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first U.S. edition of Ralph Bates' brilliant novel about criminal on a boat in Greece, signed by the author. The first U.S. edition, first printing.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper.In the original unclipped third printing dust wrapper.A brilliant and vibrant novel by Ralph Bates, set in England and Greece, following a group of criminals who work on a boat for a Greek sponge collecting company. They live in isolation, avoiding society and the police, with poignant reflections on their past.Bates was an English novelist and political activist, known for his work on pre-Civil War Spain. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Very light fading and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. A few very light marks to the cloth. Dust wrapper is a little edge worn, with small chips and closed tears, with a couple of neat tape repairs. Wraps are a little rubbed with a few light handling marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. signed by author. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

Second Printing. Ola dustjacket art. Unusual novel of a group of criminals working on a boat for a Greek sponge collecting company in order to avoid society and the police. Not found in Hubin (2001 edition). Dustjacket blurb describes the writing style as "stream of consciousness". Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, vertical signs of rubbing at spine.

First Edition. Ole dustjacket art. Psychological novel of a group of murderers and criminals working as sponge divers for a Greek company to avoid contact with society. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, spine ends with some nicks and wear.

1937, London, Jonathan Cape, pp376, cream cloth in dustwrapper. Inscription from the author, and signed on the title page. Dustwrapper is chipped with piece missing from spine, covers browned, otherwise good.