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Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since 25 July 1997
First edition. Fine in near fine, lightly soiled dustwrapper with some light wear to the ends of the spine. Seller Inventory # 42050
Title: The Fable and the Flesh
Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London
Publication Date: 1959
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1959. No Edition Remarks. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Seller Inventory # 1634280899BDO
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Barclay Books, York, WA, Australia
HARDCOVER. 1959. First edition. A very good copy with age tanning of the edges and light foxing to the first and last few pages. The contents are otherwise fine and unmarked. The d/w is unclipped and good with light edge wear and panel tanning. Seller Inventory # 17156123
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Val Biro (dust jacket) (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 320. Blue cloth, titles stamped in silver on the spine. Board edges rubbed, leaf edges lightly stained and dust-soiled. Owner signature on endpaper, New York March '59, and a few marginal notes, all in pencil. In the three-color Biro illustrated dust jacket, price clipped. Edges rubbed, back panel lightly soiled, spine ends chipped. A young Oxford-educated writer and bookseller becomes involved with the family of a deceased novelist. Dust jacket preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve. Seller Inventory # 5882
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. 320p., first edition hardbound in 8x5 inch blue papered boards lettered silverfoil, and enclosed in the painterly dust jacket (credited to "Biro") which is not price clipped. Top rim of spine panel has crimps and is faintly sunned; top margin of dust jacket has a touch of edgewear, a tiny marginal tear, plus dust jacket verso shows scattered light foxing. Sound, else clean, and unmarked: a very good copy in every respect. Seller Inventory # 317221
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Tobo Books, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean tidy book with some foxing to page edges, in bright wrapper, alos with some foxing. Dusty top edge. Not price clipped, but with pen inscribed price over the original price of 16s net. Book. Seller Inventory # 003415
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 320. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. The publisher's own retained copy with their stamp on the front endpaper, reading 'Weidenfeld Library'. Front panel of jacket designed by Biro. Very good indeed in complete, slightly used, very good dust jacket, with some nicking at head of spine. Front panel of jacket in good order showing a man standing in a bookshop. Seller Inventory # C72091
Quantity: 1 available