Red Tapeworm by Compton Mackenzie (8 results)

Condition: Good. 1941. Second Impression. 311 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Top textblock edge dyed red. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 312pp. Red cloth-covered boards; reverse titles on white printed spine label, bottom text block edge untrimmed. 12mo. Sun-faded, rubbed spine ends. Text block edges tanning. Free endpaper tanning; gutters strained, volume loose, pages ageing. Otherwise internally neat and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Nicolas Bentley Dust Jacket Art (illustrator). 3rd printing (1967); red c w/red titles on white; dj w/lite wear only, unclipped price, in mylar; 311 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near fine with very light edge wear mainly to top edge of spine on dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. spine bumped with a short nick at head, top edge pink, minor light spotting to fore edge, good; 311 pages including appendix.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Nicolas Bentley (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1955 first edition, third impression. Inscribed by Author. Size 12mo, 7.25" tall, 311 pages. Red hard cover with red title and publisher's name on white panels on the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition very good, corners and spine ends a little rubbed, end-papers with offsetting, pages are a bit toned otherwise clean throughout. Dust jacket condition good plus, 1.5x1.5 cm triangular tear to top edge of front panel, with loss of half the A and all of the P, E, and W in tapeworm of the title and the ac in Mackenzie. 0.5cm chip with loss at lower spine end, spine a little sunned, nicks and tears to edges, tiny part of the face of the illustration on the front panel is rubbed away, not price clipped, price 10s. 6d. net. Inscribed by Compton Mackenzie on the front end-paper "For Brenda with Best Wishes from Compton Mackenzie" A humorous novel on the economic measures imposed by the government during World War 2. Dust jacket illustration by Nicolas Bentley. Inscribed by Author(s).

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Publisher's red cloth with red titles to spine within a white square. Top edge red, 311 pages, 5.25 X 7.5 inches. A good copy with foxing on the froe edge of the pages, No dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Publisher's cloth. Presentation copy inscribed to the ffep by Mackenzie. Damping/fading/few stains to cloth, edges foxed, endpages toned. The DJ in mylar is a bit rubbed and soiled. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.