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Jonathan Cape, 1958. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1958. First Published. 253 pages. Purple dust jacket over grey cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Water staining to edges. Light sunning to spine and edges. Sticker to rear panel. Wear marks overall.

Jonathan Cape, London. 1958. 1st.edn. 8vo. pp253 incl. index. Orig. grey cloth, ruled & decorated in purple with silver over to bumped spine. Page edges dusty with tanning to the endpapers. Dustwrapper chipped head & tail of spine and upper corners faded in parts. Sunned & faded to spine. Pastedowns browning at edges from binder's paste beneath. Newspaper cutting from The Times 1968 reporting Plomer's election to President of the Poetry Soc. pasted to ffep.

Jonathan Cape, 1958. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1958. First Published. 253 pages. Purple jacket over grey cloth. Pen & pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Thumb-marking present. Text is clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Light crushing to spine. Clipped jacket. Panels have light edge wear with tears and creasing. Visible sunning to spine.

NOONDAY Book. Very Good. Hardcover. FIRST. A very good first edition in dj. STAMPED FROM THE LIBRARY OF GORE VIDAL..

Jonathan Cape, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The boards are a bit bumped and marked.There are library markings.One inscription.A little damp marked.Tightly bound.[R.M]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London:: Jonathan Cape,, [1958].. First edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. A few spots of foxing to fore-edge; small ink name and date; else a fine copy in a fresh, unchipped jacket with a little fading to the spine, as usual.. 8vo,.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Excellent memoirs from the Anglo-South African writer Plomer. All in VG+, clean, crisp and bright order. Very smart grey cloth with purple and silver decoration and titling. G+ unclipped d/j, lightly worn to edges and faded to spine. 8vo. 253pp

London, UK: Jonathan Cape, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 254pp. Grey cloth-covered boards; purple design on front, purple titles on spine. Bumped spine ends. Cocked. Top and outer text block edges tanning, stain to bottom of outer edge, bottom edge starting to fox. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper and an obituary of Jonathan Cape (publisher) has been pasted to the front paste down. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket sun faded, has small areas of loss at spine head, shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. In this second volume of his memoirs the poet William Plomer tells how he returned to Europe via Siberia in the late 1920s and of his gradual re-adaptation to English life.

London: J. Cape, 1958. First edition. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. 253 p.; 21 cm.

Jonathan Cape, 1958. 1st. Hardback. Very Good. First edition hardback, 1958, with no jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards a touch tanned to spine and edges. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - ownership signature to from endpaper dated 1958; toning to page-ends but text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. First Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 253pp. A lively memoir of 1920's travel in Asia, and Europe in the 30's and 40's. As a successfull as a poet, novelist and critic, Plomer has a knack for meeting the most interesting people of the period. Very readible. In grey cloth boards, and printed dust jacket (spine is faded, and light wear to extremeties).

London : Cape, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 253p. ; 21cm. Subjects: Plomer, William (1903-1973). Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.

London: Jonathan Cape. Hardback. 253pp. First edition. Dust wrapper design by Hans Tisdall. Blue marl cloth with decorative printed purple labels and titles to spine and purple line and WP design to front is very clean but slightly bumped to points. Dust wrapper is a little faded and some edges wear including some closed tears and tiny chips. A little loss to Dust wrapper spine ends. WH Smith's library label to endpaper but no other library marks. pen note to rear dust wrapper flap. Good+, sound copy in good dust wrapper . Hardback. First Edition. 1958.

London: Cape. Bound in crisp grey cloth, with bright silver title to spine and purple label, this 1958 hardback First Edition is VG in VG wrapper (unclipped). 253pp with Preface, 18 Chapters and Index. Clean endpapers sound/tight binding; wrapper has minor chips/rubbing at top/tail of spine and wrapper spine slightly rubbed at edges:otherwise all VG . Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 1958.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1989. [Literary autobiography] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.253; [3], blank. Publisher's grey cloth blocked in purple, typographic dust-jacket priced 16s. Contents clean, vintage bookplate with wood cut illustration to pastedown, jacket sunned to spine else near fine. William Plomer CBE, was a close friend of Ian Fleming, his trusted Editor-in-chief, the dedicatee of the novel Goldfinger, and the very first reader of the James Bond debut 'Casino Royale'. This copy is from the Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled notes and ownership to endpaper. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert. Ian Fleming The Bibliography, p.650.