elizabeth taylor, davies (66 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Reprint. Ex-library copy, pocket and slip on rear endpapers, name of library written on title-page. Personal name on front paste-down. Cocked, spine faded, decent reading copy.

Zustand: Good. Litlet wear to boards. Light toning to pages. DJ has some edge wear and faded spine. Price clipped.

Zustand: Good. 1949. Second Printing. 253 pages. No dust jacket. Brown 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. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Lettering is clear.

Zustand: Fair. 1949. Second Printing. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Visible creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Pages remain intact. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Black marks to boards.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 253 p.; 19 cm. Subjects: Fiction in English 1945 Texts; English fiction; Novels. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 191 pages. No dust jacket, Cover slightly worn, Text tanned. Ex-library. When newly orphaned Cassandra Dashwood arrives as governess to little Sophy, the scene seems set for the archetypal romance between young girl and austere wi dowed employer. Strange secrets abound in the ramshackle house. But conventions.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 253 p.; 19 cm. Subjects: Fiction in English 1945 Texts; English fiction; Novels. 1 Kg.

8vo, vi + 216pp. Original cloth in yellow dustwrapper, significantly worn and chipped, with signifiant tearing towards bottom corner. Frots fly leaf displays a bookplate from the collection of Frederick May of Deakin University. A very good copy. First edition. Ex library.

Zustand: Fair. 1957. First Edition. 251 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Staining to front board.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 260pp, pages browning, foxing on page edges, text clean and binding sound, no inscriptions, brown cloth, unevenly faded, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Gift inscription written by the previous owner on the front free end paper page. Publication of 259 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, tears and faded marks. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Zustand: Fair. 1957. First Edition. 252 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth boards with lettering. Boots library rebind with associated stickers and markings to pages and boards. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Minor cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Binding is slightly loose. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Lettering is darkened. Visible wear, water and sticker marks to boards. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing hardback lacking dustjacket. Book in VG condition with no inscriptions, slightly uneven lightening to the spine (where Daily Mail Book of the Month sticker would have been placed on spine). Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Scans available on request.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. Peter Davies, 1954 Fair FIRST Edition, HARDBACK.Bound brown ccloth; no DW; Copy ex-Boots library. Ref 2.

Hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Acceptable. 1st. (UK) Stated first publication 1954. Owner,s name and date to end paper, slight tonng of pages, the book cover had been hity with water at some point and has left a "tide mark" to the bottom edge of both front and back covers, with some discoloration to the head and foot of spine, there is a small water stain to portions of the top edge of pages, and to the inside corerns of the hinges, the book is NOT slanted and there is no musty smell that I can detect, thus Acceptable in unclipped Acceptable dust jacket with spine panel darkened and the dust jacket wavy from water; DJ is in mylar sleeve. Red cloth, 216pp. This was her first collection of 17 short stories. Taylor (d 1975) was an English novelist and short-story writer. Kingsley Amis described her as "one of the best English novelists born in this century". Antonia Fraser called her "one of the most underrated writers of the 20th century", while Hilary Mantel said she was "deft, accomplished and somewhat underrated". (1.33 JM HOJ 302/0 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1st printing hardback lacking jacket. Book in VG+ condition with no inscriptions, small original bookseller's label to front pastedown. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Please request a scan if required.

FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, octavo, beige buckram boards, red lettering to spine, red floral illus to front board, 251pp, VG (spine sl cocked, light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light to moderate fading to spine & board edges, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges).

Octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 215pp, VG+ (sl rubbing to edges, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (price clipped, light creasing to edges, sl fading to spine, light chafing & soiling).

Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, vi + 217pp, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (price clipped, sl creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, prev. bookseller's sm label to front flap).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. All in VG internal order, clean crisp and bright on economy stock. Inscription - title and name - in ink to fep. Tan boards faded to spine, but heavily worn and marked to rear. VG facsimile d/j. 12mo. 192pp.

Hardback, 184mm x 121mm brown cloth boards, black titles, first edition, v prelims, 216pp. Good/NoWrapper. Book is ex-Boots library. Stamp on front, eyelet hole at top of spine, sticker residue to rear inner board, exterior bumped, pages clean with isolated foxing. Short-story collection by under-rated 20th century English woman novelist. Catalogue: Firsts and Collectables. Keywords: Hester, romance, spry, gravement.

Peter Davies, London. 1968. Re-issue. Hardback with DW. A lovely clean copy in a price-clipped wrapper which is sunned to spine and has a small price sticker to inner flap.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1951 hardcover with dust jacket. The book is in very good/near fine condition. clean, square and tight. corners sharp. The dust jacket is in very good condition. clean and bright. see photos. postage quoted covers Fedex courier delivery.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine book in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. The light brown cloth book, stamped in red to the front panel and spine, has light soiling and toning to the page edges and a touch of softening to the lower spine. The jacket, priced at "16s net" to the lower front flap, has light wear and creasing to the edges, with a few nicks.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine book in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Book has light toning to the lower edge and rubbing to the lower spine, with a library stamp "Royal Naval War Library" to the front flyleaf and another library stamp to the upper page edges. The jacket (priced 8s 6d net) to the front flap has some light wear to the spine edges with a small chip to the upper spine (not affecting the lettering) and a few closed tears to the edges. Scarce, especially with the jacket. Debut novel.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Unblemished blue boards and spine, the latter lettered in white. The jacket, in clear removable sleeve, has mild foxing on front panel and 2 mm loss on each of the two top leading corners. Internally clean and unmarked save for a 5 mm on edge of last three pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. Pp. 214. In original tan boards. A very good copy plus , internally clean and tight with a touch of fade to the spine. The priced jacket is complete. with rubbing and loss to the top of the spine and base, some nicks. Exceptionally uncommon novel and especially in jacket.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good ++. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition. 1st Edition 1949. Signed by the author on a paper slip tipped into end paper. Uncommon as nice as this. Book is very good++ and quite bright. Contents good. Small name to end paper. The wrapper is very good+ with edges rubbed and nicked. Small chip loss to spine tips. Light surface loss to rear. More images can be taken upon request.Ref 14955. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Good condition, book society recommendation, first blank page removed, ex library, light age discolouration marks, light wear & marks. Dust wrapper - Good used condition, light edge wear, age discolouration marks, light wear & marks.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good (-). Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Acceptable. 1st. (UK) Stated first publication , 1961. No markings, slight toning of pages, the foot of the spine has been exposed to water at some point, discoloring small portions of the cover cloth at the foot of the spien and adjacent front and back covers just at the spine, with some soiling to portions of the top edge of pages, thus Good (-) in unclipped Acceptable dust jacket with some discoloration to the dust jacket to the back, two chips to the lower edge of front panel and a chip to the head of spine panel; DJ is in mylar sleeve. Greenish grey cloth, 251pp. Taylor (d 1975) was an English novelist and short-story writer. Kingsley Amis described her as "one of the best English novelists born in this century". Antonia Fraser called her "one of the most underrated writers of the 20th century", while Hilary Mantel said she was "deft, accomplished and somewhat underrated". This , her 8th novel, is her most sex-infused work, telling the story of a rich woman who marries a man ten years her junior. (1.33 JM HOJ 302/0 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.