New York, Vintage Books, 1997. Ed.: Reprint, 20 Cm. Paperback. ISBN: 0679736808. A Very Good paperback with lightly rubbed covers. Clean, tight, unmarked. Very Good/Wraps.
London, Chatto & Windus. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780701137182). Hardcover. Used, First printing of first edition hardcover with slight creasing and softening at edges and corners of unclipped jacket. Pages are yellowed around the edges. MB. Very Good/Very Good.
London, Chatto & Windus. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780701137182). Hardcover. Used, First printing of first edition hardcover with slight creasing and softening at edges and corners of unclipped jacket. Pages are yellowed around the edges. MB. Very Good/Very Good.
London, U.K. Chatto & Windus. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780701137182). Hardcover. Used, First edition first print hardcover. Price-clipped dust jacket has several superficial scores and indentations. Leading edges of jacket are slightly worn. Page block and page edges are quite yellowed. Light staining to leading corners of front board. Hardcover spine head is a little bumped. Binding is sound and pages are tight throughout. Text is clear. AF. Good/Good.
London, Chatto & Windus. 1996. (ISBN: 9780701137182). Hardcover. Used, Hardcover in clipped dust jacket. Very good condition. Jacket spine is sunned and a few faint scores to jacket front and rear. Nick to jacket rear at lower leading corner and light wear to leading corners of jacket and spine ends. Small tear to side edge of half-title page and upper corner of same page is creased. Page block is tanned but pages remain sound and text is clear. TA. Very Good.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Paper breownin g else Very Good in spine-sunned near Very Good dust-jacket. .
London : Chatto & Windus 1996. First Edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of Eric George Hatfield Moody with his personalized bookplate to front pastedown.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 618 pages; Physical description.: 618 p ; 25 cm. Subject: English fiction -- Fiction. General. Summary: In BABEL TOWER a cast of striking characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics. passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early 1960s. Frederica (the heroine of VIRGIN IN THE GARDEN and STILL LIFE) now teaching English in an art college. is hiding herself and her son Leo from a violent husband; her urge towards freedom later leads to an angry. humiliating divorce case. Hers is not the only struggle: her friend Jude writes a novel. BABBELTOWER. which is tried for obscenity; her brother-in-law Daniel becomes involved in new movements for London's poor and distressed. Their crises mirror those of the age - abroad. this is the decade of the Berlin Wall. the Cuban Missile Crisis. the death of Kennedy; at home it is the era of the LADY CHATTERLEY case. of the Beatles. of Mods and Rockers. art school riots. the Profumo scandal. Moving and absorbing and full of comedy as well as strife. this superb novel brings our own recent past to vivid. and disturbing life.ISBN: 0701137185.
London : Chatto and Windus 1996. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. 1st edition. 1st printing. NOT price-clipped. SIGNED. Physical description; 618 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects; Married women — England — London — Fiction. Trials (Obscenity) — England — Fiction. ISBN: 0701137185.
London : Chatto & Windus 1996. First Proof Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series; Byatt. Antonia Susan (1936-) Quartet ; 3. Physical description; 625 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects; Potter. Frederica (Fictitious character) ; Fiction. Trials (Obscenity) ; Fiction. Family violence ; Fiction. Married women ; Fiction. Young women ; Fiction. Divorce ; Fiction. Married women England London ; Fiction. Trials (Obscenity) England ; Fiction. Family violence England ; Fiction. Young women England ; Fiction. Divorce England ; Fiction. London (England) ; Fiction. English fiction. Fiction. General. Genre; Fiction. ISBN: 0701137185.
London : Chatto & Windus 1996. 1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if slightly edge-torn and dust-dulled dust wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Physical description: x. 625 pages. Subjects: Married women England London; Fiction. Trials (Obscenity) England; Fiction. Family violence England; Fiction. Young women England; Fiction. Divorce England; Fiction. Divorce. Family violence. Married women. Summary: Using the ideals and turbulence of the 1960's as a backdrop. this brillant novel follows two legal cases. The resulting confusion is as comic as it is threatening and bizarre. ISBN: 0701137185.