From Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A. Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 03 September 2014
First edition, first printing. In publisher's orange cloth binding decorated in gilt on the spine. Very Good, with pages toned, top edge dust-soiled, several small brown spots to textblock edge. Tape ghost to front and rear free endpapers. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket, with a stain on the front panel, foxing, light edge wear, toning to spine panel, and tape repairs made to the verso. The author's third novel, scarce in the dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 140937411
Title: Nothing Like Leather
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
Publication Date: 1935
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. Owner's name on front endpage. Slightly dampstained and soiled. (british literature). Seller Inventory # X14G-00714
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First U.S. Edition. 416 pages, 8vo. No DJ. Orange cloth boards with black lettering along spine and front cover. Shelfwear: scuffing along edges and cover boards, light spine fade, some light foxing and tanning. No marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. Seller Inventory # 49083
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Brown cloth hard cover with gilt titles on spine, and cover wear mostly confined to some minor discolouration of boards. Reasonably clean interior with 416 untrimmed pages. Published in 1935 this scarce 1st edition volume is in good to very good condition. Seller Inventory # 004818
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Printed wrappers, a few leaves roughly opened, otherwise fine. Advance copy of the first American edition, gathered and sewn sheets, glued into the flapless dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 9208
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Magus Books of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: very good plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near-fine with a touch of offsetting to endpapers and a tiny black mark (apparently bleed from the black topstain) at the top of the first two pages, otherwise bright and clean. In a very good dust jacket (top and bottom corners of front flap clipped) with slight waer at the spine ends and corners, a small chip at the top of the back panel, and internal tape reinforcement at the top of the spine (invisible from the exterior). A very attractive copy of Pritchett's third novel. Seller Inventory # 5865
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). A first edition of V. S. Pritchett's fifth work, presented by the author to Kingsley Martin, editor of the New Statesman, later owned by Christopher MacLehose. This is a work of drama.Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1900-1997) was a British writer and literary critic, known for his fiction, non-fiction and journalism.Pritchett, or VSP as he often went by, presented this copy to Kingslepy Martin (1897-1969), the editor of the New Statesman, for whom Pritchett was a literary editor for many years.This copy contains the bookplate of Christopher MacLehose (b1940) a British publisher, founder of the Mountain Leopard Press, and the MacLehose Press. His success includes introducing Stief Larsson, Raymond Carver and Richard Ford to a British audience.A first edition. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally very smart, with the spine a touch faded and the odd mark to the board. Ownership bookplate to the front pastedown; author's inscription to the front endpaper. Internally firmly bound, pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book. Seller Inventory # 762R3
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition. C. W. Anderson dustjacket art. Dramatic novel set in London which explores the relationships and lives of the characters whose lives intersect at a tannery. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket with wraparound dustjacket art, with mild surface wear to rear panel, several short closed tears and shallow chipping along panel edges and spine ends. Seller Inventory # 18163
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
First U. S. edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 416; one page crudely opened, dust jacket with shallow chips along top and bottom edge barely touching some lettering; very good copy in a good dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 32946
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First edition. Octavo. pp [vi], 416. The author's third novel, arising from his time in the leather trade. All of Pritchett's early books, with the exception of Marching Spain, are scarce.Free endpapers faintly tanned. Very good indeed in very good, slightly spotted, nicked and chipped dustwrapper with a couple of closed tears. Very elusive in this bright condition. Seller Inventory # PRITCHET010437
Quantity: 1 available