devil failed von maurice samuel (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1953. No Edition Remarks. 269 pages. Yellow dust jacket over red cloth. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to endpapers and a stamp. Boards with minimal shelf wear. Gilt lettering is dulled. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. All surfaces heavily sunned. Stamp on front.

Zustand: Good. 1953. No edition remarks. 271 pages. Yellow dust jacket over red cloth. Archive copy. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Mild tanning to spine. Light rubbing and marking all over. Pencil to panels.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. "The Ominous Adventure of a Twentieth-century Gulliver" - A novel described as "half a thriller and half a parable, which relates the adventures of a modern Gulliver who finds himself by sudden catastrophe too big for ordinary life." The author was born in Romania, educated in England, and came to the US to live in 1914. 271 pp. Dustjacket by George Salter. Fine in black cloth with copper lettering on the spine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, some minor edgewear, spine slightly toned).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Dust jacket included. First edition. First Edition. Fine cloth, in slightly chipped dustwrapper. Frontispiece illustrates the trapped giant. Fantasy of a man who wakes from a coma to discover he has grown to gigantic proportions and is kept prisoner by a cruelly experimenting doctor and a perversely lustful nurse. Sinister and comical, it probably gave Rod Serling the idea for a classic Twilight Zone episode starring Mickey Rooney. The author was a Roumanian Jew who emigrated to France, then England, and finally America. He became a noted historian with many non-ficiton titles to his credit, but also a handful of novels.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Knopf (1952). First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A clean, tight copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free shop. Defect-free. 0.0.