A Moment of Time by Hughes, Richard - 1926

Chatto & Windus, 1930. Hardcover. Good. 1930. First Edition Thus. 243 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Chatto & Windus, 1930. Hardcover. Good. 1930. 243 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. 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.

Chatto & Windus, 1930. Hardcover. Good. 1930. First Edition Thus. 243 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Chatto & Windus, 1941T. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Second Impression with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order

Chatto and Windus, 1930. Phoenix Library series,. 1930. Hardcover. hardback, small 8vo, 243pp, owner's name on endpaper, edges browning, text clean and sound, blue cloth, gilt decorated spine, slightly rubbed, Good condition / no dustwrapper .

Chatto & Windus, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. 1930 printing. From the library of Benjamin B. King. Bound in blue cloth. Gilt decoration on spine. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Owner's name on front end page, else unmarked. <br> "Benjamin B. King was an intelligence officer for the British Royal Air Force during World War II. After World War 2 broke out in Europe in September 1939, he joined the British Royal Air Force as a 'penguin' who could not fly because of eyesight problems. He was assigned to Coastal Command at the airbase in Wick in the very north of Scotland, which provided defense for Britain in the North Sea, engaging the Germany Navy and Air Force. After his stint at Wick, Ben was transferred to the vital but vulnerable British base at Gibraltar off the coast of Spain, where the British monitored German and Italian military operations in the Western Mediterranean. While in Gibraltar, one of his tasks was to listen to Luftwaffe radio… Read More

0 First Edition/First printing, Published by Chatto & Windus, London 1926. VG tight condition. No marks or inscriptions. Slight tanning to pages. Green cloth covers have minimal wear fading to spine

London: Chatto & Windus, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Small octavo (20 cm), pp. 244. Green cloth with gilt spine text, publisher's top stain. White jacket with blue titling and art by Pamela Bianco. Bumping and light edge wear. Jacket with moderate soiling, chipping and tape repairs. From the private library of novelist, screenwriter and Brautigan biographer William "Gatz" Hjortsberg.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Very slight wear, a near fine copy in a slightly soiled, very good dustwrapper, illustrated by Pamela Bianco, with very shallow loss at the crown and a tear on the rear panel. The author's first collection of short stories.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Signed by Hughes on half-title page. Green cloth with gilt spine text, publisher's top stain. Cover art by Pamela Bianco from dust jacket and author photo tipped-in on inside front and front free endpaper. Spine-cocked, light wear to spine ends. No jacket. From the private library of novelist, screenwriter and biographer William "Gatz" Hjortsberg.

2014 - 1st ed stated ("1" in number line) - INSCRIBED - authors debut book - "Fourteen-year-old Audrey martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she'll never get out of Kentucky - but when her fingers touch the pion keys, the whole church trembles." - book: very good (like new) - dj: very good (like new) - dj in protective mylar sleeve

1965 - First Edition stated - A Tiger Mann Mystery - "...for Tiger is told on his wedding day that he is needed for Operation Plato." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - no previous owner markings - dj: vibrant colors with some rubbing to the black base and abstract sun - interesting black and white photo of Spillane on the back cover - a few chips repaired with archival tape - dj in protective mylar sleeve

First edition. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine has small nick, small reddish stain to front cover and rear cover, otherwise very good or better. Lacks dust jacket.

New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478

200 copies were published by Quill & Brush for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Features Octavia E. Butler, Michael Chabon, Maxine Clair, Annie Proulx and Jane Smiley.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1971. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Ex-Lib w/ Usual Markings and Expected Imperfections. dj protected by new Mylar wrap.. 8 vo; black boards; 361 pgs.; illust. dj. From the Critically Acclaimed Author of From Here to Eternity. a very clean copy of this classic.

This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the front, back and spine of the cover boards and there is no wear on the edges of the cover boards.There is some bumping on the cover boards. The previous owners name is written on the front end page. The pages are white, crisp and claen of any markings. "William Thomson, famous nineteenth century missionary, traveler, and author, described twenty-five years of surface study of Palestine as it relates to the Bible in his two-volume work, The Land and the Book. When he comes to describe Jerusalem he makes this remarkable statement; Do not set out...resolved to make discoveries. There is not a foot of ground that has not been already scrutinized by a thousand eyes as keen as yours, and the old adage, "If new not true," may be applied to Jerusalem and her monuments with more propriety than to any other place on earth...." - Introduction from Poet and Peasant: A… Read More

Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.

Paris Editions Denoel, 1992, First Edition. paperback. First edition, Paris 1992, one of 3443 printed. -- Text (the cartoon captions) in FRENCH. -- Softcover, 8.3x10.8 inches, stiff cover with flaps. Condition: near fine (small surface scratch rear cover). -- Nice collectible example of Sempe's classic cartoon work, familiar to New Yorker readers. ISBN 220723861X

New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine-. First American Edition of two early novels. 8vo: [4],328pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slate grey paper-covered boards; dust jacket, priced $4.75, replicating (separately, on front and back panels) Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for the original wrappers. Near Fine (top edge soiled and stained, gilt a bit faded, gift inscription on fly-leaf); about Fine jacket. Lilley A.10. First collected in 1952 by Rinehart for the Periscope Book Shop and Holliday Bookshop in New York; the unsold stock was reissued in 1965 by Little, Brown, Powell's then American publisher (our copy), with publisher's label pasted to jacket's spine panel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions… Read More