The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium by Durrell Gerald, First Edition (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Previous owner name on ffep else clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Name of the previous owner scratched out in black koki on the front free end paper page. Publication of 193 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. The boards are in good condition. There is foxing on the block of the book. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG/VG. Gift inscription on fep. DJ price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. True first British printing with original unclipped (priced to publisher's sticker) jacket (£5.50). Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, patchy browning, little fading to spine, a few small marks, the odd small crease/rub to edges, minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners and a few minor scratches. Boards are near fine with a hint of pushing to corners and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Minor spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Crease to top corner of a couple of pages. Pages slightly tanned. Very occasional small mark to pages. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardback. First Edition. Hardback. 193pp. First edition. Further stories from Gerald Durrell's tales of his family life combined with a few short stories. Dust jacket illustration by Val Biro. Green boards with gilt titles to spine are very clean and neat. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed with some tanning to white background and a few dusty marks to the back. Very good copy in good+ dust jacket Very good copy in good+ dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing, appears unread, not price clipped, no owner's name or other inscription, very mild sun tanning to D/j sleeve but D/j has no tears, nicks, creases or marks and is now protected by a clear removable sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Val Biro (jacket) (illustrator). First Edition. There are six distinct stories in this 193 page volume. One is called: ` The Michelin Man ', and another is called: `The Public School Education '. UNillustrated. Humour of a decidedly British spin throughout. The author's family and travel are two prevalent themes. Read more about : Highcliffe Hotel and Le Petit Chanson. Cond : Boards are green with gilt lettering - spine only. End-papers are white. D.J. is price-clipped. The d.j. is white with green decoration. The d.j. illustration shows the vintage Rolls the family decides to take for a short vacation. (HINT : The horse & trap are in the picture because the Rolls convertible is in trouble.) D.J. spine lettering is sun-faded. Volume is otherwise perfect and w/o marks. Collectible ! ! Quote (p. 103) : " `Aw, well, ol' Miss 'Emps, she says she'd share a flat withMary, cos she liked having 'er back scrubbed and didn't see any 'arm in it. And Sandra said Miss 'Emps was tryin' to seduce Mary, and so Miss 'Emps got ever so angry an' said she'd rather have 'er back scrubbed by a girl than 'er front scrubbed by ._._._. . " Size: Octavo.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium. More leaves from the extraordinary annals of the Durrell family, including an awful picnic on the Dorset coast and a still more disastrous expedition on the Poseidon, a vessel unseaworthy even by the most land-lubberish standards and which listed to starboard 'like a woman on excessively high-heeled shoes who had the misfortune to lose one of the heels'. 193 pp(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition first impression and signed directly to the title page without inscription. Rare - no others listed at time of posting Dustjacket has some faint fading to title area on front spine and back and endpapers have fade lines. Book is good but with slight left to right lean and some spotting and foxing to all text block edges, slightly worse to top edge. Jacket has been price clipped. Previous owners name pencilled out to top of ffep. Still a nice and rare collectable signed first edition.Covered in clear acetate for protection. Thanks for looking and please check out my other books and signed books on Abe. Signed by Author(s).

8vo., First Edition; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author's first collection of short stories, with splendid dustwrapper artwork by [Val] Biro. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.