kite von rex warner (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1943. Reprint. 191 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with black lettering over pink cloth. Jacket appears to be trimmed along top or bottom edge. Colour frontispiece with B&W illustrations throughout. Front endpaper missing. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal tanning to page edges. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with light marking to boards. Clipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Moderate tanning and soiling, with small stains to DJ.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1943 EDITION with rubbed dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 2nd class tracked post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Hard covers, dust jacket. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Fine/fine, tiny nick in wrapper at base of spine, clipped, sl. corner wear. Col. frontispiece, 8 monochrome illustrations by a variety of artists including K. Millar. iv, 5-191 pp. Weight: 1 Language: English Reprint of 1936 edition. Tales of Action series no. 8.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. vi, 252pp. Purple cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. With a colour frontispiece and eight captioned plates of unaccredited black and white illustrations. Edges and endpapers spotted, and with some further sporadic spotting throughout. The binding just a fraction tender at a number of gatherings. Very good, albeit lacking the dust wrapper. The author's first book, a 'boy's own' adventure novel set in Egypt and Cyprus.

First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author; 8vo; colour frontispiece, 8 plates in black and white, previous ownership inscription to front pastedown; publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with the unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, closed tear to front panel, loss to corners and foot of spine, slight spotting and soiling, else very good. First edition of Rex Warner's first novel, lengthily inscribed by him in blue ink to the front pastedown: 'Poor old / RCBM [?] 1934 [in another hand] / was compelled by financial difficulties to sell this lone book (written in 16 days). It was since acquired by Mr C.L. Greenwood, when flushed by illusory triumphs at imperfectly understood games, + is dedicated to him by a grateful, but athletically inferior, author. / Rex Warner'. This volume is number eight in the scarce Basil Blackwell series Tales of Action by Men of Letters, in which the publisher made the bold experiment of commissioning swashbuckling adventure stories for young adults from scholarly types like the classicist Warner.

First edition of Warner's first book, a boy's adventure story, published in Blackwell's "Tales of Action" series. Set in Egypt and Cyprus, where Warner had worked and travelled in his twenties, it is "well packed with kidnapping, code-breaking, escapes, car chases, and a series of mysterious baroque murders" (Reeve, p. 10). N. H. Reeve, The Novels of Rex Warner: An Introduction, 1989. Octavo. Colour frontispiece and 7 black and white plates by H. R. Millar. Original purple cloth, gilt-lettered spine. With dust jacket. Gift inscription (dated 1941) to front free endpaper. Some foxing to edges and endpapers; an excellent copy in the bright, unclipped jacket that has short closed tears to the spine ends and some nicks to the extremities.