Maiden Voyage

Hammondsworth, UK: Penguin Travel Library, 1983. (reprint). Trade Paperback. GOOD. Ex-library with expected markings and protective cover. Faint age toning of pages. From running away from school in England to "his impressions of the Temple of Heaven in Peking…he reveals his unique gift for observation coupled with a brilliantly idiosyncratic appreciation..." of the world around him.

New York: L.B. Fischer, MCMXLV [1945]. 303pp. Octavo. Publisher's cloth binding. Near fine in a very good dust jacket that has some edge-chips and light soil; not price-clipped. First American edition, first printing. The author's first book and with a foreword by Edith Sitwell.

Cambridge, MA: Exact Change, 1999. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Fine. 274pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, as new, Fine condition. Account of the author's sixteenth year, when he ran away from English public school and was then sent to Shanghai to live with his father. Originally published in 1943. Foreword by Edith Sitwell.

Penguin, 1954. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. Slight rubbing and soiling to wraps with a small to top of spine. No inscriptions, browning to page edges. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK.

NY: L. B. Fischer. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Original cloth, pictorial endpages. Lower points slightly bumped, few very minor stains to top edge of cloth. Tight binding. The DJ in mylar is neatly repaired to verso with tape/paper to spine ends/points. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages… Read more about this item

L. B. Fischer. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1945. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ; Beige cloth cover is toned at extremities and on backstrip with light soiling along back hinge but in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are lightly toned but clean and near pristine. Dust jacket… Read more about this item

London: Routledge, 1943. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good condition. From the collection of poet Gavin Ewart, with his name penned on F.E.P.. Penned inscription of Raymond Lawford dated 1945. on page after copyright page. Covers shelf worn, and corners and spine bumped, with discolouration to spine. Pages and text fine. RB. Hardcover. Very Good. Used.

London: Faber and Faber, 1968. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof. Near fine in wrappers. Re-issue of the author and painter's first book, originally published in 1943, an imaginative novel set in an English prep school.

London: Routledge Ltd, 1943. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A smart first edition of this autobiographical novel from English writer and artist Denton Welch, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With illustrated endpapers and jacket designed by the author. An autobiographical… Read more about this item

NY: L.B. Fischer. 1945. The first American edition. Foreword by Edith Sitwell. Front hinge starting; beige cloth dust-darkened; a good copy, lacking the dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Good.

1973. Hamish Hamilton Library, London. 1973. First edition thus. Hardback with DW. Wrapper is price clipped and a little bumped and spine is sunned. Otherwise a nice clean copy.

1945. WELCH, Denton. MAIDEN VOYAGE. New York: L.B. Fischer, (1945). First American edition of the author's first book. 8vo., light brown cloth lettered in red. Endpapers and dust jacket illustrated with designs by the author. A very good copy that shows some light soiling at the cloth; dust jacket shows light soiling and edgewear, chip at the crown. … Read more about this item

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1983. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Welch, Denton. 256pp. Pictorial laminated light card covers. 8vo. Light chipping to edges and wear to covers. Pages tanning. Internally, neat, clean and tight.

Hamish Hamilton , 1973 . 0241023769 Hardback in clipped jacket. Spine lightly sunned, outer edge of page-block foxed. A previous owner has loosely inserted photocopies of Welch's artwork from the original edition.

Exact Change, 2013. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1954. Reissued, 1st thus. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Foreword by Edith Sitwell. Plaintext paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear panel. After I had run away from… Read more about this item

CollectibleGood. 1968 Faber and Faber. With orignal Jacket. 2nd edition. Good hardcover copy with jacket, solid binding, mild to moderate reading/age wear, jacket has some mild edge wear, may have ex owner inscription and/or some light markings. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a… Read more about this item

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; 'After I had run away from school, no one knew what to do with me...'Born in Shanghai in 1915, son of a wealthy rubber merchant, Denton Welch was dispatched to an English boarding school after his mother's death.

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Very Good.