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 FAULKNER, William (1897-1962), The Mansion
FAULKNER, William (1897-1962)
The Mansion
New York, Random House, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (so stated) of the third (and concluding) novel of the Snopes family saga. 8vo: [12],436pp. Publisher's blue coarsely woven cloth, upper cover and spine ruled in grey and lettered in gold, top edge stained yellow, blue end papers; first-state pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped, but with publisher's code "10/59" on front flap and author's photograph by Ralph R. Thompson on back panel. About Fine, with minor crease to spine toe; about Fine jacket, barely rubbed at spine panel tips. Petersen A52.2b. Man Working 141. Burgess 99, p. 73. Chapter 13 is a revision of "By the People," a short story first published in Mademoiselle. "Turgid and difficult as he is, Faulkner is worth the trouble." (Burgess) 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 Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Fine-.
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 FAULKNER, William (1897-1962), The Mansion
FAULKNER, William (1897-1962)
The Mansion
London, Chatto & Windus, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression (no further printings noted). 8vo: 399,[1]pp. Publisher's burnt orange imitation cloth, spine stamped in gold, matching burnt-orange top stain; typographic dust jacket designed by John Woodcock, priced 21s. A Fine copy, square and tight with spine gilt undiminished, better than Near Fine jacket, mildly toned with light edge wear. Petersen A52.9. Man Working 146. Burgess 99, p. 73. Final installment in the author's Snopes trilogy, and yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of most UK editions of American authors' works. Chapter 13 is a revision of "By the People," a short story first published in Mademoiselle. 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 Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Near Fine+.
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 FAULKNER, William (1897-1962), Miss Zilphia Gant
FAULKNER, William (1897-1962)
Miss Zilphia Gant
Dallas, Book Club of Texas, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. First and only printing in English (although the text later appeared in Uncollected Short Stories of William Faulkner, in 1979), no. 189 of 300 numbered copies. Preface by Henry Nash Smith. 8vo: xii,29,[2]pp. Publisher's reddish-brown V-cloth, spine and upper cover ruled and lettered in gold, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, title page printed in brown and black. Very light wear to spine tips, else clean, tight, bright and unmarked; about Fine (and apparently unread), without the original unprinted glassine dust jacket. Petersen A12.1. Man Working 621. Probably written in 1929, three years before publication in this special edition of only three hundred copies. The short story centers on development of the title character, whose mother raises her as a virtual prisoner. "Though it is crude in its handling of sexual imagery and suffers from a number of other technical problems that betray it as an early story, it does create two vivid characters. And of more importance, it reveals the author grappling with a theme that will be developed fully in some of his greatest stories and novels: the warping, destructive impact upon the psyche of the repression of those drives that connect the human being to the world of nature." (Volpe, A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner: The Short Stories) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .
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 FAULKNER, William (1897-1962), Mosquitoes : A Novel
FAULKNER, William (1897-1962)
Mosquitoes : A Novel
New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1933. Hardcover. Second Edition of Faulkner's second novel, set in New Orleans and following a group of artists on a four-day yacht excursion on Lake Pontchartrain. Crown 8vo (186 x 125mm): [10],9-349,[1]pp, "apparently from the original plates." (Petersen) Publisher's French blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in orange, fore-edge untrimmed, Grolier Book Shop ticket to lower front end paper; illustrated "card players" dust jacket priced $3.00. Not to be confused with the edition Liveright issued in 1955, in deep blue cloth stamped in gold with the jacket now varnished and different copy on the flaps, "probably a belated attempt by Liveright to capitalize on the Nobel Prize acclaim." (Petersen) Spine toe barely bumped, jacket lightly rubbed with several tiny edge tears, but a superb example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Petersen A4.3. While in Paris in late 1925, Faulkner started a novel titled "Mosquito," but left it unfinished. After his first novel, Soldiers' Pay, was published in February, 1926, he started work again on Mosquitoes (now retitled), drawing on material from two unpublished short stories ("Adolescence" and "Don Giovanni") and several of his poems and early sketches. "Unique among Faulkner's works, it directly addresses artistic matters in arguments and debates put into the mouths of several characters, primarily Dawson Fairchild and Julius Kauffman. In these debates Faulkner, as a young writer, seems to have been working out an aesthetic that would be important as a foundation for the major works that lay ahead." (Literary Encyclopedia) 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 Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Near Fine+.
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 FAULKNER, William (1897-1962), Pylon
FAULKNER, William (1897-1962)
Pylon
New York, Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (February, 1935, on copyright page), in First Issue dust jacket (with correct titles listed on rear panel), filmed in 1957 as The Tarnished Angels. 8vo: 315,[1]pp, with title-page vignette. Publisher's cobalt-blue V-cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in gold within horizontal black band, top edge stained black; pictorial dust jacket, priced $2.50. Near Fine or better (flaking to spine lettering), in bright, Near Fine or better jacket (spine head rubbed and nicked, slight loss to front flap fold). Provenance: from the collection (now housed at the University of Central Florida Libraries) of bibliophiles Walter and Dorothy Donnelly, with their label on front paste down. Petersen A17.1a. Man Working 174. Fargnoli, pp. 211-16. Agnew, p. 10. Hanna 1163. In the early 1930s, made temporarily affluent by publication of Sanctuary and by Hollywood, Faulkner took up flying, bought a Waco cabin aircraft, and flew it, in February 1934, to the dedication of Shushan Airport in New Orleans. The trip supplied "much of the material for Pylon, the novel about racing and barnstorming pilots that he published in 1935. Having given the Waco to his youngest brother, Dean, and encouraged him to become a professional pilot, Faulkner was both grief- and guilt-stricken when Dean crashed and died in the plane later in 1935 . " (Encyclopedia Britannica) According to The Literary Encyclopedia, Pylon "has many failings, but did offer Faulkner a chance to try out some of the techniques he perfected in Absalom, Absalom!, which is widely considered his greatest achievement." In fact, Faulkner claims to have written Pylon to get away from writing Absalom (Fargnoli, p. 213). The Tarnished Angels, about an airplane contest in New Orleans during Mardis Gras, starred Robert Stack, Rock Hudson, and Dorothy Malone, and while Pylon may be a minor novel, of all the films made out of Faulkner's books, Tarnished Angels is the best. 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 Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Fine-.
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 FAULKNER, John (1901-1963), [Social Fiction] Men Working [Together with Advance Reading Copy]
FAULKNER, John (1901-1963)
[Social Fiction] Men Working [Together with Advance Reading Copy]
New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1941. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated), offered with the scarce Advance Reading Copy in original pictorial wrappers, of this Depression-era tale of Mississippi tenant farmers by William Faulkner's younger brother, his first published novel. Crown 8vo (204 x 131mm): [4],300pp. Publisher's coarsely woven oatmeal cloth, spine stamped in brown, hill country vignette in brown to upper cover; illustrated dust jacket, priced $2.50. Dust-soiled top edge, end sheets lightly toned, neat ownership signature to front fly-leaf, else an excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout; jacket edges lightly rubbed but bright and intact. Touch of soil to ARC text block, still a Fine, fresh copy. White & Sugg 1. Hanna 1158. Coan, p. 58. A "satirical narrative with strains of macabre humor and compassionate realism about displaced North Mississippi hill types on W. P. A. drawn from the author's experience in Beat Two [autonomous Mississippi county political unit] and in Oxford [Mississippi]." (Studies in Bibliography, vol. 23 (1970), pp. 217-29) 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 Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Near Fine+.
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 FAULKNER, William (1897-1962), Soldiers' Pay [Dennis Wheatley's Copy]
FAULKNER, William (1897-1962)
Soldiers' Pay [Dennis Wheatley's Copy]
London, Chatto & Windus, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression (no further printings noted), one of only 2000 copies of the author's first title published in the United Kingdom, with preface by Richard Hughes (who wrote "A High Wind in Jamaica" and, incidentally, helped launch Faulkner in England). 8vo: xii,326,[6, including four pages of publisher's advertisements]pp. Publisher's coarsely woven aquamarine cloth, spine lettered in gold, top edge stained aquamarine, bottom edge uncut; cream-colored dust dust jacket printed in red and black, priced 7s/6d. Dennis Wheatley's copy, with his bookplate on front paste-down. Top edge spotted, others lightly browned, otherwise about Fine, square and tight, in better than Near Fine jacket, the spine dust-soiled and a bit darkened, edges lightly rubbed and nicked. Petersen A2.14. Man Working 310. Hanna 1166. Coan, p. 123. Cooperman, p. 160. In 1925, Faulkner moved to New Orleans where he joined a literary circle centered on Sherwood Anderson and was introduced to the modernist innovations of T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. His interest in experimental writing was piqued, and he began a novel, his first, Soldier's Pay, portraying the tragic homecoming of a wounded war hero. Though set in Georgia, it was, nonetheless, a kind of rehearsal for the later Mississippi novels, full of despair and "mythic motifs of impotence and futile love." (The Literary Encyclopedia) Wheatley's stylish thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling writers from the 1930s through the 1960s. His Gregory Sallust series was a key inspirations for Ian Fleming's James Bond stories. Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine-/Near Fine+.
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 FAULKNER, William (1897-1962), Soldiers' Pay
FAULKNER, William (1897-1962)
Soldiers' Pay
New York, Boni & Liveright, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing, one of only 2500 copies, of the author's first novel. 8vo: 319,[1]pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in yellow, fore-edge untrimmed, stylized blue and white vine-patterned end papers, title page printed in red and black. A beautiful, crisp, fresh copy, hinges sound and uncracked, pages clean, bright and unmarked, excepting manuscript ex-libris to half-title and verso of front fly-leaf, and these trivial faults: one dog-ear, one leaf edge vertically creased, thin one-inch streak to upper cover, otherwise spotless. Without the scarce dust jacket. Petersen A2.1. Man Working 304. In 1925, Faulkner moved to New Orleans where he joined a literary circle centered on Sherwood Anderson and was introduced to the modernist innovations of T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. His interest in experimental writing was piqued, and he began a novel, his first, Soldiers' Pay, portraying the tragic homecoming of a wounded war hero. Though set in Georgia, it was, nonetheless, a kind of rehearsal for the later Mississippi novels, full of despair and "mythic motifs of impotence and futile love." (Literary Encyclopedia) Andersen recommended the book for publication, without having ever read it. Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. In 1921, Faulkner worked briefly in a New York bookstore, where he met Elizabeth Prall, who later married Sherwood Anderson. That led to an apprenticeship with Anderson when Faulkner moved to New Orleans in 1925. "In a starry literary circle [Faulkner] was inspired to experiment with prose pieces, many of which he published in the New Orleans Picayune and the fledgling literary journal, The Double Dealer. Friends acquainted him with Freud, the mythic world of the anthropologist Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough, and most importantly, the modernist innovations of T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. Faulkner's absorbed interest in experimental writing proceeded apace; building on his brief published pieces in local venues, he began a novel, Soldiers' Pay, which portrayed the tragic homecoming of a fatally wounded war hero. Set in Georgia, it was, nonetheless a kind of rehearsal for the later Mississippi novels. Full of despair and "fisher-king" mythic motifs of impotence and futile love, the novel focussed on the returning veteran, Mahon, who is accompanied by a fellow soldier and a young widow, both met on the homeward bound train. Mahon's heartless flapper fiancé, another woman he has deserted, a jaded, randy intellectual and Mahon's minister father complete a cast that plays out a tragic story of a sterile postwar world in which old loyalties and values seem to mean little. Anderson, who had promised Faulkner he would get the book in print if he didn't have to read it, came through, and the novel was published in 1926." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .
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 FAULKNER, William (1897-1962), The Town
FAULKNER, William (1897-1962)
The Town
London, Chatto & Windus, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression (no further printings noted). 8vo: 319,[1]pp. Publisher's burnt orange cloth, spine lettered in gold; illustrated dust jacket by Dick Hart, priced 16s. Better than Near Fine (two corners bumped, dust-soiled top edge), square and tight, in about Fine jacket (very light edge wear). Petersen A47.12. Man Working 353. The second installment in the author's Snopes trilogy, and yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of most UK editions of American authors' works. Two of the chapters (1 and 16) are revisions of two previously published short stories, "Centaur in Brass" and "Mule in the Yard." 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 Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+/Fine-.
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 FERMOR, Patrick Leigh (1915-2011), Three Letters from the Andes [Signed]
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh (1915-2011)
Three Letters from the Andes [Signed]
London, John Murray, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing, with drawings and illustrated dust jacket by John Craxton. 8vo: [10],118pp, with four black and white illustrations and a map of Peru. Publisher's blue cloth, spine stamped in gold, jacket priced £10.95. Signed by the author to front fly-leaf. Fine, tight and unread; about Fine jacket (faint smudge to back panel). In 1971, Leigh Fermor accompanied five friends on a sojourn into the high Andes of Peru, from Cuzco to Urubamba, on to Puno and Juli on Lake Titicaca, down to Arequipa, and finally back to Lima. The expedition, led by a writer and poet, included a Swiss international skier and jeweler, a social anthropologist from Provence, and a Nottinghamshire farming squire—all seasoned mountaineers. The other two participants—Leigh Fermor and a botany-loving duke—were novices. As the group traveled into increasingly remote regions, Leigh Fermor recorded his experiences in this series of letters to his wife, Joan. 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 Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine-.
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Sonstige Stichworte: Natural history. Botany—Poetry—Early works to 1800.

 LEIGH FERMOR, Patrick (1915-2011), The Violins of Saint-Jacques. A Tale of the Antilles
LEIGH FERMOR, Patrick (1915-2011)
The Violins of Saint-Jacques. A Tale of the Antilles
London, John Murray, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of Leigh Fermor's scarce second book (and first novel), with drawings by Robin Ironside. Tall, slim 8vo (215 x 132mm): 139,[1]pp. Publisher's moss-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, moss-green map end papers; superbly illustrated dust jacket, priced 9s/6d. A virtually pristine copy (apparently unread), the jacket minutely rubbed at the extremities. Preceded by The Traveller's Tree (1950), Leigh Fermor's best-selling travel book, considered a classics of the genre, and like that first book, set in the Caribbean. The romantic tale of an enigmatic Frenchwoman's youth amongst the descendants of slaves and a fading French aristocracy. Basis for Malcolm Williamson's three-act opera, with libretto by William Chappell. 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 Edition s Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine.
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 FIRBANK, Ronald (1886-1926); GOREY, Edward [Illustrates], Two Early Stories [the Wavering Disciple; a Study in Opal]
FIRBANK, Ronald (1886-1926); GOREY, Edward [Illustrates]
Two Early Stories [the Wavering Disciple; a Study in Opal]
New York, Albondocani Press, 1971. Limited Edition. Wrappers. No. 147 of 200 hand-numbered copies for sale (26 lettered copies were also issued), with illustrations by Edward Gorey and foreword by Miriam J. Benkovitz. Crown 8vo (190 x 135mm): 54,[2]pp, with four illustrations. Original limp brown, grey, and gold French marble wrappers over card covers, paper title label printed in brown to front panel, text printed on olive-green laid paper, fore-edge untrimmed. Fine. Benkovitz A26. Toledano B52b. Both stories originally appeared in Granta, a Cambridge University publication, in 1906 and 1907, respectively, years Firbank spent at Trinity Hall, during which he converted to Roman Catholicism (lesbian nuns became a literary specialty). Gorey was extremely fond of Firbank and counted him among his important literary influences (a sentiment Firbank expressed often about Oscar Wilde, whose son, Vyvyan Holland, had decided against publishing "The wavering Disciple" in The Crescent, another Cambridge publication, because Holland thought the story unsuited to the tastes of the university's "hearty, rowing, drinking, swearing" undergraduates). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .
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 O'FLAHERTY, Liam (1897-1984), The Pedlar's Revenge and Other Stories [Díoltas]
O'FLAHERTY, Liam (1897-1984)
The Pedlar's Revenge and Other Stories [Díoltas]
Dublin, Wolfhound Press, 1976. Hardcover. First Impression of the first English language edition, originally published under the titled Díoltas. 8vo: 222pp. Publisher's mid-brown coarsely woven cloth, spine lettered in gilt, mustard-yellow end papers; dust jacket, illustrated by Jarlath Hayes, priced £3.60. Fine (apparently unread), in Fine, crisp jacket. O'Flaherty, a leading figure of the Irish Renaissance. abandoned his training for the priesthood and embarked on a varied career as soldier in World War I, lumberjack, hotel porter, miner, factory worker, dishwasher, bank clerk, and deck hand. In 1925, he scored literary success with one of his first novels, The Informer, about a confused rebel during the Irish War of Independence, which John Ford (O'Flaherty's cousin) adapted into a movie that was nominated for an Academy Award. Some of O'Flaherty's best short stories, including those in The Pedlar's Revenge, appeared first in Irish-language versions. 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 Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine.
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 FORD, Ford Madox (1873-1939), The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion [Signed]
FORD, Ford Madox (1873-1939)
The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion [Signed]
New York, Albert and Charles Boni, 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 74 of 300 copies for sale and 25 unnumbered presentation copies, signed by Ford on front free end paper. Crown 8vo: ix,260pp. Publisher's quarter-bound finely woven sky-blue cloth over lime-green paper-covered boards, spine stamped in green, top edge stained green, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, title page in green and black; without the slipcase. Small printed book plate of New York attorney and bibliophile Harry C. Goebel to front end-paper (Goebel designed and commissioned designs for book plates; see Eastern University's Goebel Bookplate Collection) Light smudge to front board, else a pristine example. Connolly 27. Modern Library 100, 30, Guardian 100. Harvey A46b. Special edition of this modern classic (first published 1915), for which Ford supplied a "dedicatory letter" to his wife, Stella: "I have always regarded this as my best book." John Rodker famously called The Good Soldier the "best French novel in the English language." Connolly described it as a "most subtle study of the eternal quadrilateral (two couples meeting in a German spa)." The story chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham, the good soldier, and his own seemingly perfect marriage, told using a series of flashbacks out of chronological sequence, a technique that formed part of Ford's pioneering style of literary impressionism. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .
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 FORESTER, C[ecil]. S[cott]., 1899-1966, Gold from Crete
FORESTER, C[ecil]. S[cott]., 1899-1966
Gold from Crete
London, Michael Joseph, 1971. First Impression. Hardcover. First Printing ("First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph 1971" on copyright page). 8vo; 194pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, the spine stamped gilt, in a pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Graham Humphreys and priced at £1.75. A just about Fine copy, probably unread, with the spine ends very lightly bumped and some scuffing on the front past down where a book plate was removed; in a Fine jacket just barely rubbed at the spine ends. Nine World War II sea stories, published posthumously. 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 Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Fine.
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