Turn The Key Softly
John Brophy
Published by Collins, 1951
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Hardcover
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1951. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards. Seller Inventory # 1680034209LEE
Bibliographic Details
Title: Turn The Key Softly
Publisher: Collins
Publication Date: 1951
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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Turn The Key Softly
Published by
Collins, London, 1951
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Johnston's Arran Bookroom, Isle of Arran, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Kenneth Farnhill (illustrator). 1st Edition. Filmed in 1953 directed by Jack Lee and starring Yvonne Mitchell, Joan Collins and Terence Morgan. Label for Winning's Library, Prestwick on front free endpaper and very small ink inscriptions. Winning's stamp on last page of text. The dust jacket by Kenneth Farnhill has been pasted to covers. A reading copy only. Seller Inventory # 008612
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Turn the key softly. A Novel.
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London: Collins, 1951
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Hardcover
Seller: Antiquariat Gallus / Dr. P. Adelsberger, Innsbruck, A, Austria
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
schw. Oln. M. goldener Schrift 8°, 255 S., Einband leicht berieben, unfrisch. Seller Inventory # Li352
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Turn the Key Softly
Published by
Corgi, London, 1956
Used
Paperback
Seller: Laura Books, Georgetown, SA, Australia
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. slight wear cover edges, otherwise book clean and tight. . Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 013956
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TURN THE KEY SOFTLY
Published by
COLLINS, LONDON, 1951
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Hardcover
Seller: Tobo Books, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some discolouring to boards, sharp corners. Foxing to fore edge but otherwise good. Book. Seller Inventory # 004300
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Turn the Key Softly
Published by
Collins, London, 1951
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Kenneth Farnhill (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear, chipping and loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, 1" loss to top of spine, corners rubbed with small loss, long closed tear to bottom front jacket, some spotting to endpapers and page fore edges, not price clipped (10s 6d), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age in unfaded jacket. 256pp. Three women are released at daybreak from Holloway Prison. Made into a film in 1953 starring Yvonne Mitchell, Joan Collins, Kathleen Harrison, and Terence Morgan. Lee and producer Maurice Cowan also wrote the screenplay, based on this 1951 novel of the same name by John Brophy, dealing with the first 24 hours of freedom for three women released on probation from prison on the same morning. John Brophy (1899-1965), was an Anglo Irish soldier, journalist and author who wrote more than 40 books, mostly based on his experiences during World War I. A very scarce book. Seller Inventory # 009676
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Turn the Key Softly
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5¼''. Contains 256 printed pages of text. A little fox spotting to the page edges, without any ownership markings. Very Good condition book, in Very Good condition Kenneth Farnhill designed artwork dust wrapper with small tears to the corners of the spine ends, not price clipped 10s 6d, spine not faded. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. Seller Inventory # 45809
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TURN THE KEY SOFTLY
Published by
Collins, London, 1951
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First Edition. Octavo, 255 pages, black cloth, inked name on endpaper; brick-patterned dust jacket torn, two spots on rear panel A literary mystery that starts off in prison. Seller Inventory # 20220262
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Original Artwork for the Dustwrapper of Turn the Key Softly
Published by
Collins, London, 1951
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First Edition
Signed
Seller: David Schutte, Lydbury North, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
No Binding. Condition: No Book. Dust Jacket Condition: Original Dustjacket Artwork. Kenneth Farnhill (illustrator). First Edition Artwork. The finished artwork for the first edition d/w of this book, image 9.9" x 12.3" (24.8x30.8cm), gouache on artboard, with yellow printer's instruction sheet on verso, signed. Signed by Illustrator(s). Seller Inventory # 000916
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