BAD CHARACTERS. by Stafford, Jean - (1968)

Chatto & Windus, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1965. No Edition Remarks. 276 pages. Illustrated dustjacket over brown cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding is shaky, however pages remain fully attached. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Spine is heavily tanned.

Farrar, Straus, 1964T. hardcover. Good. 1.2000 8.0000 5.6000. First printing, stated. Moderate wear and tear to the jacket. Pages are tanning.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, 1964. 1st printing. Tight and unmarked copy showing some reader's use and handling. Quarter cloth binding. 276pp. Unclipped jacket is lightly rubbed, offered now in a new mylar cover.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1964. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A smart first edition of this collection of short stories from Pulitzer Prize winning American author Jean Stafford. First edition, first impression. This work contains nine short stories, alongside a novella, and is said to display 'the wit, sensibility and psychological penetration' common to the author's work. Written by Jean Stafford, an American short story writer and novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970. In the original quarter brown cloth with red paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with minor wear and the odd small mark to the boards. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1964 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 8.5" by 6". None. The first edition of this anthology of short stories from Pulitzer Prize winning American author Jean Stafford. The first edition, first impression of this work from American novelist and short story writer Jean Stafford. In the brightly illustrated publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.This work contains nine short stories from Stafford, alongside a novella, and displays 'the wit, sensibility and psychological penetration' common to the author's work.Stafford won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for 'The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford' in 1970. From the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, an extravagant socialite and renowned beauty of the Edwardian period. Impeccably connected, Pleydell-Bouverie was also the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII, and rumoured to be a lover of King Edward VIII. A sparkling figure of fashionable society, her friends included Nancy… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, 1964 . First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8" by 5.5". None. A signed, first edition of this anthology of short stories from Pulitzer Prize winning author, Jean Stafford. The first edition, first impression of this work from American novelist and short story writer Jean Stafford. Signed by the author, 'To Kit and Joe Real with every good warm wish, Jean Stafford', to the front endpaper. With an additional ink inscription to the rear paste down of 'Jean Stafford is a bad character (Peter S. Boynton)', from fellow American author Peter Boynton, known for his 1966 works 'Games in the Darkening Air' and 'The Eaves Dropper'. In the brightly illustrated publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. This work contains nine short stories from Stafford, alongside a novella, and displays 'the wit, sensibility and psychological penetration' common to the author's work. Stafford won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for 'The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford' in 1970.… Read More