Second Face by Marcel Ayme (7 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Hardcover, in jacket. Text clean, unmarked. Binding very slightly shaken. An owner's name inside. Jacket missing some pieces. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Scarce first UK printing. Foxing to page edges else a nice clean copy. Jacket is housed in a clear protective sleeve. First published in France in 1941 as La Belle Image and is translated into English by Norman Denny.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. 1st Edition. Spine, binding and cover all fine. Contents unmarked and no inscription. 182 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First English Edition. 192 pages. Red cloth boards with gold lettering on the spine. Slight wear to extremities of spine. Orange, pictorial, price-clipped jacket has light scuffing throughout and wear along the extremities including a couple of chips. Reinforced by previous owner with tape on the inside of the jacket at the edges of the spine, only visible if you take off the jacket. DJ protected in a mylar sleeve. Slight wear to edges of textblock. Tight binding and square textblock. From the dust jacket: "A miracle did happen to Raoul Cerusier, a Paris business man of no distinction or importance. To be precise, M. Cerusier's face suddenly and inexplicably changed from that of an unprepossessing middle-aged man to that of an outstandingly handsome younger man." Size: Octavo. Book.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read with some wear but still very useable. Library rebind and they have pasted the original dust cover to the boards. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st UK Edition. Hardback, first UK edition, with dust wrapper. Translated from French by Norman Denny. Maroon boards with gilt lettering on spine. Head and tail of spine lightly rubbed and bumped. Binding is neat and tidy. Page edges bear some moderate discolouration and foxing. Some generous discolouration and foxing of pastedowns, free endpaper and title pages. Otherwise this book is in fair condition. Dust wrapper has some light rubbing and creases at the edges-- the odd tear.Thumbing along top and bottom. General discolouration. Spine thumbed--head and tail worn a little. Price clipped. Back cover scuffed and thumbed, this dust wrapper is in fair condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously; they usually present better than they sound.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blackcurrant cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 192 printed pages of text. Light foxing to the closed page edges. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with small chip to the top and bottom of the spine, not price clipped, 10s 6d. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.