Chitty sir willes (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Firmly bound, red cloth boards. Small scuffing and dust spotting on cover and spine. No jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. No Dust Jacket. No dust jacket. Hardcover with leather-bound spine. Boards have one or two small stains. Lower edges of boards have a few small dents. Spine and spine ends are very worn. Small nick to left side of spine head. Small abrasion to middle of right side of spine. Name stamp on front endpaper. Page block is faded, with one or two grubby marks and moderate age-spotting. Pastedowns and endpapers are a little sunned, with one or two age spots, and there is very minor age-spotting at one or two points throughout text. Pages are slightly sunned. Binding is sound. Text remains clear. AF. Used.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. No Dust Jacket. No dust jacket. Hardcover with leather-bound spine. Lower edges of boards have one or two small dents. Front board has numerous scratches along length of leading edge. Upper edge of spine head has been worn off. One or two small abrasions to spine. Name stamp on back endpaper. Page block is faded, with one or two grubby marks and some age-spotting. Pastedowns and endpapers are a little sunned, with one or two age spots, and there is light age-spotting throughout. Pages are slightly sunned. Binding is sound. Text remains clear. AF. Used. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. approx 900pp. Still tightly bound. Interior in very nice clean condition. No names or inscriptions. In excellent condition, from a private home - not ex library. One of several similar volumes I am offering all bound in matching maroon with gilt titling to spine. Looks hardly used. Weighs about 1.4 kg Picture of this book available.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. approx 550pp. Still tightly bound. Interior in very nice clean condition. No names or inscriptions. In excellent condition, from a private home - not ex library. One of several similar volumes I am offering all bound in matching maroon with gilt titling to spine. Looks hardly used. Weighs about 1 kg Picture of this book available.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Ex library hardback, no DJ; usual stamps/markings. Published in 1930 by Butterworth & Co. Ltd., London. Some wear to boards with small pieces of the spine cover missing otherwise a clean, sound copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-1D*.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Octavo. 140pp. Original red boards with gilt spine titles. Very light bumping to spine ends, otherwise near fine in a slightly edge nicked, very good indeed, unclipped dust jacket.

A charming first edition with original dust-jacket of Thomas Hinde's debut novel. Published a year after his marriage to the fellow novelist, Susan Hopkinson (herself daughter of the novelist, Antonia White), this novel was well received and prompted its author's career as a fiction and then a non-fiction writer. The London Review of Books called Mr. Nicholas 'exquisitely glum and fearingly funny'. Hinde's second novel, Happy As Larry, retained this disaffected humorous tone, and was excerpted in the popular paperback anthology, Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men, placing its author in the circles of counter culture and mid-century intellectual history. First edition; 8vo; publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, a very good copy with uncut pictorial dust-jacket, lettering on spine lightly faded, dust-jacket browned on spine panel, light rubbing to corners especially on upper spine panel, offsetting on jacket verso and light stains on back panel; 271pp.…

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A lovely first edition of Thomas Hinde's first novel, a scarce copy complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work, a scarce copy. Sir Thomas Willes Chitty's first novel, published under pen name Thomas Hinde. Following the story of Mr Nicholas, eccentric man, his wife and three sons. Themes include cruelty, uneasy laughter, and, the unbearable closeness of family, affection and tolerance in the face of misunderstanding.Complete with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. In the original cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally in excellent condition with just slight bumping to the extremities. Dust wrapper is generally smart with chipping and the occasional closed tear to the extremities, Closed tear, approximately one and a half inches in length to rear of the wrap. Spotting and handling marks to wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with just very marginal age toning. Near Fine. None (illustrator). book.…