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Paperback. Zustand: Good. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. With remainder mark. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Zustand: New. 1992. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Reprint Reissued. The Janet Frame Collection series. Pictorial card covers, coloured endpapers. Mint unread.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. First New Zealand Edition. Tight and square, light rust in endpapers. Dust jacket is unclipped, small gaps at top corners, rubbing, unfaded, in a clear film protective sleeve.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First US Edition; First Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 277 pages; 1965 George Braziller HC/DJ 1st US printing. Square snug and clean; prior owner name penned neatly to front end page. Dust jacket is bright and clean with only minimal stress crimping at spine ends and superficial shelf rub at edges. $4.95 issue price intact on front flap. Top corners bumped with mild stress ding to top corners of page stock. VG/VG+.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First American edition. A bump on the front board corner and slightly cocked spine else about near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a short tear on the front panel and toning on the flaps.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First New Zealand Edition. Moderate marks and wear, lacks front endpaper, clean pages. Dust jacket is unclipped but has some tape stains, edge wear, repaired tears. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First New Zealand Edition. A very good copy of the first New Zealand edition with just faint foxing in the edges and endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped, and bright, clear tape applied to edges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. first edition. 270 pages. No dj.

277pp. 8vo. Original cloth Very good copy in original cloth in insect damaged dustwrapper. . First U.S. edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. A very good first edition copy with just ownership names in front. The dust jacket is fully intact and bright with light wear.

270pp. 8vo. Original boards in very slightly chipped dustwrapper, a very good copy. First U.K. edition.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnA spellbinding novel, which is not only comic and stylish but also intense.

hardcover. Zustand: fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First. 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. New York: Braziller, (1965). First American Edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. First Edition. Owner's ex-libris label on front endpaper. Some staining and spotting to page edges. Some loss to dust wrapper, including large surface chip to paper near tail of spine, and loss of some words on dust wrapper flaps. Some tape repairs to dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; This New Zealand edition is the true first edition. 270 pages. Black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. "A contemporary ingredient in the cauldron world of the witch-novelist is a pilot's thumb. Yet the old mixture remains: entrails, toads got from beneath a stone, fashionable racial scapegoats (Shakespeare has 'blaspheming Jews', 'nose of Turk', 'Tartar's Lips') , souls and bodies strangled at birth; murderers, adulterers. Mix, and bring forth a prophecy.]" - opening paragraph.; 8vo.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. This New Zealand edition is the true first edition. 270 pages. Black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Owner's signature. 3/4" tears in tail edge of dustwrapper. 1/2" tears in edges of dustwrapper. 1/4" chips at head of dustwrapper spine. Adhesive tape repairs to dustwrapper. "A contemporary ingredient in the cauldron world of the witch-novelist is a pilot's thumb. Yet the old mixture remains: entrails, toads got from beneath a stone, fashionable racial scapegoats (Shakespeare has 'blaspheming Jews', 'nose of Turk', 'Tartar's Lips') , souls and bodies strangled at birth; murderers, adulterers. Mix, and bring forth a prophecy." - opening paragraph. ; 8vo.

hardbound. 1st US edition Janet Frame novel (state First Printing); medium foxing to endpapers/prelims/text block, scattered foxing in text, o.w. Good-Very Good; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed with some wear to front flap at fold. Dustwrapper. 277pp. 8vo. G-VG in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper G-VG in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Peter Branfield (Jacket design) (illustrator). First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition, published simultaneous with the New Zealand first edition - both editions printed and bound in Great Britain by C. Tinling & Co. Ltd. Jacket design by Peter Branfield. Author photo on back panel of dustwrapper by Jerry Bauer. ***Very good in brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Tail of spine and bottom corners slightly creased. Slight marking to the top edge of the page block, otherwise page block edges clean with no foxing. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally near fine with no inscriptions other than FILE COPY in pencil at the top of the front free endpaper. No creases or tears. Interior pages clean. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 21s net. The dustwrapper is complete, but the extremities are somewhat rubbed and creased, mainly at the head of the spine and bottom edge of the back panel. No fading even to the spine. Dustwrapper bright. ***207mm x 140mm. 270 pages. ***'Janet Paterson Frame ONZ CBE (28 August 1924 - 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She was internationally renowned for her work, which included novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civil honour. Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a lobotomy that was cancelled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awarded a national literary prize. Many of her novels and short stories explore her childhood and psychiatric hospitalisation from a fictional perspective, and her award-winning three-volume autobiography was adapted into the film "An Angel at My Table" (1990), directed by Jane Campion.' (Wiki) ***'To the village of Little Burgelstatham comes the tubercular Rev. Aisley Maude, widower, retired clergyman, to convalesce at his brother's home, Clematis Cottage. Aisley is ill-mannered, faintly disturbed by the lack of inhibition in his sunny-natured nephew, Alwyn, who spends his days and nights making love to Jenny, his girl friend, also a guest in the house. Aisley suspects that to be true to himself he must follow in the footsteps of St. Cuthbert and live as a hermit in solitude, seeking God and a meaning to life in meditation. His brother, Russell, is a dentist. He is married to Greta, whom nothing ever surprises. Russell has lived in a groove for 25 years, indifferent to Greta's ambitions for him, regulated by the clock and the seasons, content to work with out-of-date dental equipment. Only once does Russell break free of conformity; on a business trip to London he succumbs to the temptation to watch the 'planes at London Airport. Weaving in and out of the loves of this ordinary family are the suspicious, self-contained villagers who despise commuters and week-enders with equal ferocity. But there is also Muriel Baldry, a woman with her own dreams. She is married to a rich Australian, and she detests his small meanness, his obsession with 'down under' - a place she visualizes as a raw, straggling continent filled with brash men and women alien to her own fine sensibilities. (Quote taken from the flaps of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the first UK edition of Janet Frame's fifth published novel, complete in its original dustwrapper, in very good condition - this copy being the actual publisher's File Copy (as marked on the front free endpaper). ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Ati Forberg (Jacket design) (illustrator). First American Edtion. First impression of the first American edition, with 'First printing' stated on the printer's page. The book was originally published simultaneously in New Zealand by the Pegasus Press and in England by W. H. Allen & Co. Dustwrapper design by Ati Forberg. ***Very good in grey-green cloth-covered boards with blue-green and white titles to the spine. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Slight creasing to the top corner-tip of the front board. Foxing to the top edge of the page block. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Interior pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good price-clipped colour-illustrated dustwrapper. Head and tail of spine and extremities of dustwrapper slightly rubbed and creased. No chips, tears, or significant creasing. No fading even to the sun-sensitive purple colour on the spine. Dustwrapper bright. ***216mm x 146mm. 277 pages. ***'Janet Paterson Frame ONZ CBE (28 August 1924 - 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She was internationally renowned for her work, which included novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civil honour. Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a lobotomy that was cancelled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awarded a national literary prize. Many of her novels and short stories explore her childhood and psychiatric hospitalisation from a fictional perspective, and her award-winning three-volume autobiography was adapted into the film "An Angel at My Table" (1990), directed by Jane Campion.' [Wiki] ***''Coming upon the novels of Janet Frame for the first time, the casual reader might very well be taken by surprise. He had expected to find another story, "real" character and situations, a not-too-uncomfortabe three-dimensional world. Instead he finds himself in the presence of ancient mysteries (albeit in modern dress), vibrations of other dimensions casting a strange, revelatory life on our everyday existence. Life as myth, life as ritual dance with her partner death. ***What could be more familiar, for instance, more conventional than an old English village like Burgelstatham? (A burgel was originally a burial place of the heathen, Miss Frame tells us.) Or than the people of our story: a dentist and his wife; his brother, a retired clergyman; his son and his son's sweetheart; a countryman of means who yearns for the great open space of Australia; an old widow lady; a milkman and his wife; a farm worker brought over from Italy.--- ***And then Miss Frame touches these people with her poet's wand, this ancient village whose existence is threatened by the "overspill" from London, and things begin to happen. Strange things, frightening things. The air is filled with voices. Unearthly music. Laughter in the wings. The ritual dance begins. Time out of mind. ***Who would think that beneath the placid surface of Burgelstatham there could be such dark mysterious currents, such subterranean creatures? ---Murder, incest in Burgelstatham?' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***First impression of the first American edition of Janet Frame's fifth published novel, complete in its original dustwrapper, in nice collectable condition - and very hard to find copies in the UK. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. No signatures. Some rubbing and dust-stains to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 270 pages. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. "A contemporary ingredient in the cauldron world of the witch-novelist is a pilot's thumb. Yet the old mixture remains: entrails, toads got from beneath a stone, fashionable racial scapegoats (Shakespeare has 'blaspheming Jews', 'nose of Turk', 'Tartar's Lips') , souls and bodies strangled at birth; murderers, adulterers. Mix, and bring forth a prophecy." - the opening paragraph.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Peter Branfield (Jacket design) (illustrator). First Edition. First impression of the simultaneous true first New Zealand edition (The book was printed and bound in Great Britain by C. Tinling & Co. Ltd. and published simultaneously in England by W. H. Allen & Co.) Jacket design by Peter Branfield. Author photo on back panel of dustwrapper by Jerry Bauer. ***Very good in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Boards nice and clean with just light handling marks. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. No significant bumps or creases. Sporadic foxing to the top edge of the page block. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Light foxing to the edges of the endpapers but interior pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper with "Pegasus" the New Zealand Press, printed to bottom edge of front flap. Head and tail of spine and extremities of dustwrapper slightly rubbed and creased. Light foxing to the edges of the foldover flaps. No chips, tears or significant creasing. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***204mm x 138mm. 270 pages. ****'Janet Paterson Frame ONZ CBE (28 August 1924 - 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She was internationally renowned for her work, which included novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civil honour. Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. (Wiki) ***'To the village of Little Burgelstatham comes the tubercular Rev. Aisley Maude, widower, retired clergyman, to convalesce at his brother's home, Clematis Cottage. Aisley is ill-mannered, faintly disturbed by the lack of inhibition in his sunny-natured nephew, Alwyn, who spends his days and nights making love to Jenny, his girl friend, also a guest in the house. Aisley suspects that to be true to himself he must follow in the footsteps of St. Cuthbert and live as a hermit in solitude, seeking God and a meaning to life in meditation. His brother, Russell, is a dentist. He is married to Greta, whom nothing ever surprises. Russell has lived in a groove for 25 years, indifferent to Greta's ambitions for him, regulated by the clock and the seasons, content to work with out-of-date dental equipment. Only once does Russell break free of conformity; on a business trip to London he succumbs to the temptation to watch the 'planes at London Airport. Weaving in and out of the loves of this ordinary family are the suspicious, self-contained villagers who despise commuters and week-enders with equal ferocity. But there is also Muriel Baldry, a woman with her own dreams. She is married to a rich Australian, and she detests his small meanness, his obsession with 'down under' - a place she visualizes as a raw, straggling continent filled with brash men and women alien to her own fine sensibilities. It is Muriel who is responsible for drawing Greta and Aisley into the final moves of the game, who resolves the pattern of their lives in a neat, unexpected climax, for Muriel gives a dinner party--- ***The author has evoked scene and character with sensitivity, poetic awareness, skill, and a beautifully balanced sense of the ridiculous. This is, unquestionably, her most important novel to date, and her book of widest appeal.' (Quote taken from the front and back flaps of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the New Zealand true first edition of Janet Frame's fifth published novel, very hard to find complete in its original dustwrapper in such nice collectable condition, and extremely hard to find copies in the UK. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Ati Forberg [Jacket design] (illustrator). First American Edtion. First impression of the first American edition - SIGNED and dated by the author in black pen to the title-page: 'Janet Frame, Jan 1970'. "First printing" stated on the publisher's printer's page, as called for. The book was originally published simultaneously in New Zealand by the Pegasus Press and in England by W. H. Allen & Co. ***Very good in grey-green cloth-covered boards with blue-green and white titles to the spine. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Bottom corners very slightly creased. Light unobtrusive foxing to the fore-edge of the page block. Internally near fine with no inscriptions (other than the author's. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of $4.95. Head and tail of spine and extremities of dustwrapper slightly rubbed and creased, with slight loss to the surface colour at the tail of the spine. Unobtrusive crease to the middle of the back panel. Slightest hint of fading to the purple spine of dustwrapper. Front panel of dustwrapper bright. ***216mm x 146mm. 277 pages. ***'Janet Paterson Frame ONZ CBE (28 August 1924 - 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She was internationally renowned for her work, which included novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civil honour. Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a lobotomy that was cancelled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awarded a national literary prize. Many of her novels and short stories explore her childhood and psychiatric hospitalisation from a fictional perspective, and her award-winning three-volume autobiography. ***''Coming upon the novels of Janet Frame for the first time, the casual reader might very well be taken by surprise. He had expected to find another story, "real" character and situations, a not-too-uncomfortabe three-dimensional world. Instead he finds himself in the presence of ancient mysteries (albeit in modern dress), vibrations of other dimensions casting a strange, revelatory life on our everyday existence. Life as myth, life as ritual dance with her partner death. ***What could be more familiar, for instance, more conventional than an old English village like Burgelstatham? (A burgel was originally a burial place of the heathen, Miss Frame tells us.) Or than the people of our story: a dentist and his wife; his brother, a retired clergyman; his son and his son's sweetheart; a countryman of means who yearns for the great open space of Australia; an old widow lady; a milkman and his wife; a farm worker brought over from Italy.--- ***And then Miss Frame touches these people with her poet's wand, this ancient village whose existence is threatened by the "overspill" from London, and things begin to happen. Strange things, frightening things. The air is filled with voices. Unearthly music. Laughter in the wings. The ritual dance begins. Time out of mind. ***Who would think that beneath the placid surface of Burgelstatham there could be such dark mysterious currents, such subterranean creatures? ---Murder, incest in Burgelstatham?' (Quote from inside front and rear of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the first American edition, signed and dated by the author, complete in its original dustwrapper in nice collectable condition. Copies of the American first edition are hard to find in the UK, and it is very rare to find a signed copy. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Signed by Author(s).

Zustand: Near Fine. NY 1965 first edition (stated) Braziller. Hardcover octavo. 277p. Near Fine, slight foxing on closed page ends (not onto text pages); no owner marks; slight fading of cover cloth; no wear. in VG+ dj, just light rubbing on dj, no tears,no chips. Wildly original and creative - the best of Frame's novels. Highly recommended. Pictures available on request.