The Professor by Warner Rex (28 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Some wear to the dust jacket with a closed two inch tear to the top front, the dust jacket is also a little grubby. Name inside and a little tanning to the pages.

Condition: Good. 1946. Reprinted. 294 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped dust jacket. Panels to dust jacket have light edge wear with tears and creasing.

paperback; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Paperback (Scruffy); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable co6ndition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Penguin edition paperback, in very good condition for its age. Number 482 in the orange 'Fiction' series. Contains contemporaneous advertisements front and rear; Cadburys, Phillips Rubber Soles and Heels, a writing course, Lux Soap and Jif Shaving Sticks. General shelf and handling wear for the age, including age-related discolouration, light tanning and foxing to cover, with creasing and light wear to edges and corners. Pageblock tanned, tanning leading into page edges, occasional light foxing on occasion. Pages are securely bound, content clear. This is an early Penguin edition, stored in a plastic wallet in our warehouse for internet sale, away from the level of handling that our London shop stock may experience. CN. Used.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. 171 pp + 6 page publisher's list. Covers a little foxed and creased, pages tanned - solid copy.

Paperback. Condition: nrFine. 1st Thus. Rear cover has advert for Pears Jif shaving stick. Minor dust marking to front cover but otherwise book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint Edition. 171 pages. >> Minor rubbing & pen to upper right corner of front cover;; small paper pull to upper paper spine. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 171pp - covers slightly rubbed and soiled/foxed - slight wear to edges - spine tanned - lacks half-title page - content edges slightly foxed - Penguin 482 - INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE WILL BE REDUCED FOR THIS BOOK - EMAIL FOR DETAILS.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. A clean, tight copy. Light wear to the edges. Previous owner signature. Some tears to the jacket. Some chips to the jacket. Clothbound in red. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fair. First Separate. Complete Unabridged ninepence edition. Penguin orange and cream livery. Loosly bound with some loss to the base with tanning to pages and marks to covers. A good reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Uniform Editon 1946, reprint. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. Includes a dust jacket, price unclipped, in near mint condition. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Condition: black cloth in fine condition. 1st.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60122377: 1944. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 294 pages. Annotations en page de garde (ex-libris). Jaquette manquante. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1945 Penguin Paperback 1st Edition 2nd Impression . Very good+ clean tight binding with Classic cover design as shown.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. Uncommon thus. Fair solid copy in original binding with some signs of Boots circulation library origin. Some fade to blue spine cloth. No jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Re-Issue. Author's second novel. It is one of the most extraordinary and enduring political novels from the 1930s. CONDITION Brown cloth with bright gilt title, unworn, pp 294. Copy is very bright and crisp, remnants of original Dj flaps laid in shows paper had been reprint on reverse of remaindered DJ paper stock. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

HardBack. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Bodley Edition of 1944, internally good clean tight sound square, light sporadic foxing limited to edges of leaves not intruding. Bound in gilt lettered orange cloth, housed and protected in original colour pictorial dustwrapper.

12mo. First edition thus. First published in 1938. Original printed wraps. Spine ends a little rubbed. Paper browned as usual. Very good +. Penguin 482.

Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Pictorial Dustwrapper. Uniform Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All dustwrappers are film protected. Paypal accepted.A Novel. (first published 1938).

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The boards have quite heavy brown spotting to the spine and there is a little discolouration around the edges of the front and rear panels. Browning and heavy brown spotting to the edges of the pages, particularly the fore edges. The endpapers are also browned but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has heavy browning to the spine, a little browning around the edges, chipping at the top of the spine and a little corner chipping. First printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Uniform Edition. 294pp. HARDCOVER Clean copy internally. No inscriptions. (Light spots to external edges.) In protected VG d/w with just slt. edgewear. A very smart copy. Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). A smart Uniform Edition of this political novel from English writer Rex Warner. Uniform edition. Published around the time of the Nazi Anschluss, this work follows the story of a liberal academic whose compromises with a repressive government eventually lead to his arrest, imprisonment and murder "while attempting to escape". Written by Rex Warner, an English classicist, writer, and translator. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light wear to the extremities and sunning to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. book.

Some slight spotting on fore-edge else VG copy in publishers blue cloth in rubbed and creased slightly scruffy dustjacket. 1st edition and elusive.The Professor was Rex WarnerÕs second novel, published in 1938, only a year after his groundbreaking first novel, The Wild Goose Chase. It is one of the most extraordinary and enduring political novels from the 1930s and further confirmed WarnerÕs status as a major writer.A Professor of Classics is appointed Chancellor of his (unnamed) country, under threat from both the government of a neighbouring country and its own fascist party. The Professor is a staunch believer in the liberal values his own country espouses but considers himself Ôabove politicsÕ, in contrast with his son, a revolutionary. The ProfessorÕs conviction that he must not enter into the political arena means that he finds himself unable to defend his liberal beliefs, even as he and his country are thrown into chaos. The consequences are violent and shocking. ISBN B00424M9KO.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - A Professor of Classics is appointed Chancellor of his (unnamed) country, under threat from both the government of a neighbouring country and its own fascist party. The Professor is a staunch believer in the liberal values his own country espouses but considers himself 'above politics', in contrast with his son, a revolutionary.