Dan billany (34 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Trap This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. Integral damage to binding e.g. cover coming away, no spine, chunks of pages falling out. Stains to cover, page edges, and/or pages inside. Rip to the cover (or dustjacket if hardback), or significant tearing to pages. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Zustand: Good. 1960. Panther Edition. 315 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Joan Billany (illustrator).

Zustand: Good. 1952. 1952 Reprint. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. paperback, 380pp, pages browning, otherwise clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good condition. ISBN: 0571138012.

Paperback. Zustand: Used; Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

Red hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd impression. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 380pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. General shelf wear. No jacket. Pages/boards clean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. pp.192 illustrated with eight coloured plates by Joan Billany. green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. a little light foxing to end pages and spotting to fore and bottom edges. A good tighy and clean copy of this scarce book in a good protected price-clipped dustjacket with some short tears, chipping and creasing to top and ottom edges and light wear to corners and spine edges.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is shelf rubbed.Previous owner's inscriptions.Well bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 380pp. In tan cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Cloth a little dull, lightly rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Text block edges lightly toned. Previous owner's name on lightly tanned endpapers. In its original dust jacket, not price clipped, lightly chapped at edges, chipped on corners and spine ends. Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. A passionate novel of an uncompromising young man and his early years in Cornwall and of the girl he met there and the hard times her family endured between the wars.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 380 pages. 7.80x4.96x1.34 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Good. 1952. Hardback. Fine in cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing a little age and shelf wear, binding tight. Lightly toned, a little spotting, text is crisp and clear and remains a nice copy. . . . .

Zustand: Good. 1952. Hardback. Fine in cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing a little age and shelf wear, binding tight. Lightly toned, a little spotting, text is crisp and clear and remains a nice copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: fine. fine Trade Lost Chapel Books 2008 edition paperback In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Zustand: Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. reprint. 192 pages. Dj chipped and worn. Bookplate. Text foxed. Joan Billany (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Book Condition, Fine: Very light signs of shelf wear across the dust jacket, bumping to its corners, slightest wear to its edges, minute tears at spine's corners. Otherwise excellent, artwork and lettering bright and vibrant. Creasing and slight curling to corners of publisher's original binding, a crease down its spine. Some spotting across the text block, particularly top edge, but mostly clean with crisp edges. Creased endpaper page, faint foxing through endpapers, otherwise pages are clean and tidy. Book remains tightly bound. First edition, published by Faber & Faber. A scarce and increasingly sought-after title, particularly when retaining its original dust jacket. Early Faber first editions from this period were produced in relatively modest print runs, and survival in complete, well-preserved condition is uncommon. Ex Libris (Peter Stevinson Watson). The Trap is a tense and atmospheric novel that explores the pressures and uncertainties of wartime Europe, combining tightly controlled suspense with psychological insight. Billany crafts a narrative driven by danger, moral complexity, and shifting loyalties, resulting in a compelling work of mid-century British fiction. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 2nd impression . In collaboration with David Bowie. 2nd impression, new 1949. Publication of 190 pages. Frontispiece. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There are light marks on the block of the book. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

First Thus Edition. Zustand: vg. vg 1st Faber and Faber 1948 edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dan Billanys The Trap first published in 1950 still stands - in the opinion of M.R.D. Foot - as one of the most powerful English novels to come out of the [Second World War]. It echoes the wartime experiences of its author who is believed to have died in 1943 while on the run from an Italian POW camp but not before entrusting the manuscripts of The Trap to safekeeping.The books narrator army lieutenant Michael Carr tells of his early years in Cornwall of the girl he met and loved there and of the hard times her family endured between the wars. These troubles and joys give way to the tragedy of war and the books narrative becomes one of comradeship suspense and fighting in the North African desert. The Trap is an outstanding novel by a writer of natural genius. written with great force and honesty. profoundly impressive. Times Literary Supplement.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good but edge worn dw. Remains overall, quite a well preserved copy; tight, bright, clean and quite strong. Mylar sleeved. Uncommon in the dw. Scarce early novel. ; 380 pages; Description: 8vo. 380 p. 19 cm. Subjects: Twentieth Century English Literature. Genre: Fiction Novel. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good but edge worn dw. Remains overall, quite a well preserved copy; tight, bright, clean and quite strong. Mylar sleeved. Uncommon in the dw. Scarce early novel. ; 380 pages; Description: 8vo. 380 p. 19 cm. Subjects: Twentieth Century English Literature. Genre: Fiction Novel. 1 Kg. …

Zustand: New. Presents the wartime experiences of the author, who is believed to have died in 1943 while on the run from an Italian POW camp.KlappentextPresents the wartime experiences of the author, who is believed to have died in 1943 while on t.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback near fine, boards minor shelf wear, no annotations, dust jacket, unclipped, minor shelf/edge wear. Publisher: Faber and Faber, London, 1950, second impression. Dan Billany's The Trap, first published in 1950, still stands - in the opinion of M.R.D. Foot - as 'one of the most powerful English novels to come out of the [Second World War].' It echoes the wartime experiences of its author, who is believed to have died in 1943 while on the run from an Italian POW camp, but not before entrusting the manuscripts of The Trap to safekeeping. The book's narrator, army lieutenant Michael Carr, tells of his early years in Cornwall, of the girl he met and loved there, and of the hard times her family endured between the wars. These troubles and joys give way to the tragedy of war, and the book's narrative becomes one of comradeship, suspense and fighting in the North African desert. 'The Trap is an outstanding novel by a writer of natural genius. written with great force and honesty. profoundly impressive.' Times Literary Supplement.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard bound in dust jacket. First edition stated on the copyright page. Minor offsetting from dj to end pages, otherwise with interior clean and binding sound. Wear to edges of dust jacket, otherwise very good.

Octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 190pp, VG+ (light bruising & discolouration to extrems, sl tanning & foxing to page edges, sm inscriptions in pencil to ffep) in d/w, VG- (v heavy chipping & loss to edges, moderate chafing & soiling to covers).

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. A first edition copy of this powerful novel drawn from the author's experiences during the interwar period. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Ink inscription to the front free end paper. The Trap follows the story of a young man during the interwar period, and is thought to be inspired by Dan Billany's own experiences. In 1942, Billany was taken as a prisoner of war in Southern Italy, and then released in 1943, but was never found and was presumed dead in 1944. The manuscripts of The Trap were left in the care of a farmer, and eventually sent to Billany's parents once the war was over. The Trap was published to great acclaim. In publisher's original cloth binding, with original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are clean but a little age toned, with spotting to the fore edge. Dust wrapper remains bright, but is a little chipped to the head and tail of the spine and sunned to the spine. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…