elizabeth taylor, davies (54 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: 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.

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

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Reprint. Firmly bound, blue cloth boards. Fading and marks on cover and spine. No jacket.

Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards with faded spine. Light toning to pages with some spotting. No DJ.

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.

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.

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: 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: Acceptable. Photograph available on request.

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).

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.

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).

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: 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.

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.

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: Acceptable. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Acceptable. 1st. (UK) Stated first publication 1958. No markings, slight toning of pages, the book cover had been hit with water at some point and has left a faint "tide mark" to the leading edge of both front and back covers, with some discoloration to portions of the top edge of pages, and to the inside top areas of the hinges, small spot to leading edge of pages, the book is NOT slanted and there is no musty smell that I can detect, thus Acceptable in price-clipped Acceptable dust jacket with the panels wavy from water and water stains to the flaps; DJ is in mylar sleeve. Red cloth, 217pp. This was her second collection of 12 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". Her long correspondence with the critic Rober Liddell forms the subject of one of her short stories in this collection, "The Letter Writers" The stories show her superb sense of irony and the subtle open-endedness. (1.33 JM HOJ 302/0 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing hardback lacking dustjacket with no inscriptions but a small attractive personal bookplate on the front endpaper. Book in VG+ condition, with slight lightening to the top of the boards. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Scans available on request.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Publisher's original light mustard cloth boards, green titles to spine. Second printing in month of first publication. 192pp. VG no jacket.

Hardback, 202mm x 130mm blue cloth boards, silver gilt titles, first edition, 252pp. plus advertisments,Good/NoWrapper. Exterior bumped and scuffed with staining and rippling to front, block edges worn from handling, differential fading to endpapers, ephemeral Observer page from 2008, pages clean. First edition of 1957 Taylor novel. Catalogue: Firsts and Collectables. Keywords: Romance, novel, school This book may attract a higher postage charge than automatically calculated on the website in order to ensure that it is fully covered for an appropriate amount of compensation in the event of loss in the post. If so we will make contact to agree any additional postal charges before completing any transaction.

London; Peter Davies, [1953]. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. 12mo. Very good. In bluecloth covered boards with white title to spine. Spine faded to light brown. Minor fading to edges of boards and light bumping to spine ends. Both the author's inscription and a gift inscription to front free end paper. Text is clean and bright. Inside flap from dust jacket laid in at rear. 250 pages. LIT/071124. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. Scarce thus. Her first novel. Has previous owner details to ffep, else a clean copy with a little softening at corners. No jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1st printing hardback in unclipped jacket. Book and jacket in VG condition with no inscriptions. Jacket bright with a couple of small areas of loss and small sticker ghost, top right front. Book with light vertical mark on front board. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Scans available on request.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 252 pages. In Good plus condition with Good plus dust jacket. Green, purple, and blue pictorial spine with black text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has chipping to corners, wrinkling to head edge of spine, foxing to covers and inside of dust jacket, and mild edge and shelf wear. Price clipped. Boards have discoloration to both covers. Textblock has foxing to pages and to edges, heavy toning to endpapers where uncovered by dust jacket, and owner inscription on front endpaper. Shelved Case 7. 1381509. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 250 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine blue and pictorial with black lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: "10s 6d net." Chipping to edges of dust jacket. Open tear along top edge of spine and rear cover. Remnants of sticker on spine, and sticker reading "Daily Mail Book of the Month" on front flap. Sunning to cloth on spine. Age-toning to interior pages. Shelved in Case 7. 1381298. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.