Mrs Palfrey At the Claremont

New York: The Viking Press, 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Pages and endpapers with just a few spots of foxing, else fine in a price-clipped very good dust jacket with a small tear and a faint spot on the rear panel, and modest toning. A novel of an eccentric older woman who moves to a rather… Read more about this item

London: Chatto and Windus, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Elizabeth Taylor's exquisitely drawn character study of eccentricity in old age is a sharp and witty portrait of genteel postwar English life facing the changes taking shape in the 60s . . . Much of the reader's joy lies in the exquisite subtlety in Taylor's depiction of… Read more about this item

Paperback. Good.

London, United Kingdom: Virago, 2006. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Later Printing Of The 1982 Edition. Illustrated White Wraps With With Lettering Within A Green Field On The Spine.

Paperback. Very Good.

New York: The Viking Press, 1971. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Viking Press, 1971. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 178 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price present. Brown cloth over decorative paper-covered boards. Light blue endpapers. Dust jacket lightly worn with some slight chipping and a few closed tears along edges. Mild lean to boards,… Read more about this item

NYRB Classics. Used - Like New. May have light shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A humorous and compassionate look at friendship between an old woman and a young man.

UsedGood. creased spine

Paperback / softback. New. A humorous and compassionate look at friendship between an old woman and a young man.

As new. Small mark to front cover.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1971. A first edition, first printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1971. A very good (or better) book with a slight stain to the top edge - no inscriptions. In a very good unclipped wrapper with a little wear to the spine tips and corners. Booker Prize shortlisted.

Virago Modern Classics; 1982. New.

London:: Chatto and Windus,. Hardback. First edition in unclipped dust jacket of this Booker Prize shortlisted novel. Filmed in 2005 starring Joan Plowright and Rupert Friend. Pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Adrian Daintrey who was better known as a portrait and landscape painter. Purple boards with printed black label and gilt titles to spine are very… Read more about this item

virago. octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

NYRB Classics, December 2021. Trade Paperback. VG. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Random House Children's Books, 1983. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hardback. Very Good.

Virago. Used - Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Paperback. Acceptable.