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24 pages. Black and white illustrations. Average wear. Sunning to card covers. Contents clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
054562Paris Payot 1932 in 8 (22,5x14) 1 volume broché, couverture illustrée, 245 pages [5], avec une carte. Traduit de l'anglais par Théo Varlet. Collection ''Bibliothèque Historiique''. Première édition de la traduction française, premier tirage. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
23701Paris, Payot 1932, 228x145mm, 245pages, broché.
Broch?. 15 pages. 15x24 cm. Couverture l?g?rement d?fra?chie.
19326280PARIS DELAGRAVE 1932 Illustrations de Joë HAMMAN. P., Delagrave, 1932, grand in-4 oblong, demi-toile bleue éd., cartonnage jaune illustré sur le plat supérieur d'une chasse à la baleine.
2007x-0691134502Princeton Univ Pr 2007. Paperback. New. illustrated edition. 384 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. Princeton Univ Pr paperback
1960156348London: Hamish Hamilton 1960. Octavo boards. First edition. "A religious morality tale in which the survivors of the atomic war are led back to the upper world where an invisible dictator a kind of God rules." - Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 p. 160. "This is no Orwellian future. It is a world incapable of the dynamic of tyranny. Even the weather is always cool and grey with no room for either fire or ice. The state motto is 'Every valley shall be exalted.' This is a brilliant projection of tendencies already apparent in the postwar British welfare state but because the book lacks the expected horrors of cacotopian fiction it has met less appreciation than NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR." - Burgess Ninety-nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 p. 75. ". an excellent example of what Chad Walsh has called 'the Law of Reverse Effect' . one of the keystones of anti-utopian science fiction." - Berger Science Fiction and the New Dark Age p. 209. "Powerful story ." - Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 95. "FACIAL JUSTICE and PLAYER PIANO are easily the most important anti-utopia written since NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR ." - Hillegas The Future as Nightmare p. 163. An important and now neglected novel that should be better known. Anatomy of Wonder 1987 3-194. Fortunati and Trousson eds Dictionary of Literary Utopias p. 219. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 pp. 274-75. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with touch of tanning to spine panel with a bit of show through to white lettering and publisher's monogram and a touch of dust soiling to rear panel. #156348 Hamish Hamilton unknown books
196032549London: Hamish Hamilton 1960. Octavo unprinted orange wrappers. Pre-bind of first edition sheets intended as a review copy. "A religious morality tale in which the survivors of the atomic war are led back to the upper world where an invisible dictator a kind of God rules." - Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 p. 160. "This is no Orwellian future. It is a world incapable of the dynamic of tyranny. Even the weather is always cool and grey with no room for either fire or ice. The state motto is 'Every valley shall be exalted.' This is a brilliant projection of tendencies already apparent in the postwar British welfare state but because the book lacks the expected horrors of cacotopian fiction it has met less appreciation than NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR." - Burgess Ninety-nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 p. 75. ". an excellent example of what Chad Walsh has called 'the Law of Reverse Effect' . one of the keystones of anti-utopian science fiction." - Berger Science Fiction and the New Dark Age p. 209. "Powerful story ." - Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 95. "FACIAL JUSTICE and PLAYER PIANO are easily the most important anti-utopia written since NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR ." - Hillegas The Future as Nightmare p. 163. An important and now neglected novel that should be better known. Anatomy of Wonder 1987 3-194. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 pp. 274-75. A fine copy. #32549 Hamish Hamilton unknown books
1924136483London & New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1924. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-220 221: blank 222: publisher's device 223-224: blank note: last leaf is a blank original green cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Hartley's scarce first book collecting seventeen stories including several later reprinted in The Travelling Grave 1948. "Hartley is the master of the double entendre and sinister talk at cross purposes." - Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction p. 228. Ashley Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction p. 88. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-80. Sullivan ed The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural pp. 192-93. Tymn ed Horror Literature 4-112. Bleiler 1978 p. 94. Not in Reginald 1979; 1992. Free endpapers a bit tanned else a fine copy. #136483 G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
8vo., First Edition, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, boards very lightly faded, backstrip suuned at extreme head and tail else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly faded, lightly rubbed at extremities and chipped (not affecting lettering ) at head and tail of backstrip. Third and final novel of the 'Eustace and Hilda' trilogy, following 'The Shrimp and the Anemone' (1944) and 'The Sixth Heaven' (1946).
8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, in custom-made-slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Elegant copy of the third and final novel of the 'Eustace and Hilda' trilogy, following 'The Shrimp and the Anemone' (1944) and 'The Sixth Heaven' (1946).
199016959Editions du Rocher 1990 341 pages 23x14x2cm. 1990. Broché. 341 pages.
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel.
194746602Putnam 1947. 3 vols. 8vo. First Edition; handsomely bound in full crushed morocco navy/green/red respectively sides with gilt frame border backs with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt tops hand-made endpapers ribbon markers in custom-made slip-cases an elegant set ideal as a gift or for presentation. Elegant set of Hartley's classic social trilogy comprising 'The Shrimp and the Anemone' 1944 'The Sixth Heaven' 1946 and 'Eustace and Hilda' 1947. The third volume was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Putnam, hardcover
8593Roman traduit de langlais par Madame E.-R. Blanchet. Paris. Plon - feux croisés -. 1958. In-8 (20x14 cms). 295 pages. Broché.
8693Roman traduit de l'anglais par Denise Meunier. Paris. Plon - feux croisés -. 1959. In-8 (20x14 cms). 244 pages. Broché.
20042-848191584XEditorial Pre-Textos 2004. Paperback. New. Spanish language. 9.06x5.75x1.26 inches. Editorial Pre-Textos paperback
1986353878New York: Beaufort 1986. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description: x 760 pages; 22cm. Subjects: Short stories English -- England -- 20th century. English fiction. 20th century fiction. Hartley L. P. Leslie Poles 1895-1972. New York: Beaufort hardcover
74671London: Hamish Hamilton 1953. Modern literature LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 19 x 14cm pp.296. Bound in red half calf with raised bands gilt titles to black leather labels and marbled paper-covered sides. Internally clean exterior unmarked. Presented in an attractive recent leather binding. Hartley's classic nostalgic novel about a middle-aged man's memories of his childhood summers in 1900. The first line famously coined the now-common proverb 'The past is a foreign country.' Basis for the acclaimed 1971 film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates scripted by Harold Pinter. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953 unknown
195744764<p>London : Hamish Hamilton 1957. First edition. A fragile widow an ex-army chauffeur love obsession and repudiation. "On his day there is no more subtle novelist writing than L. P. Hartley and few as satisfying. In The Hireling he is very much on his day . a triumph of the novelist's art" Daily News 10th July 1957. Memorably filmed in 1973 with Robert Shaw Sarah Miles etc. Crown 8vo 20cm. iv248ivpp. Original green boards blocked and lettered in silver; just a hint of bruising but a very good copy in the Patricia Davey dust-jacket – just faintly tanned with a couple of slight marks but also very good.</p> London : Hamish Hamilton, (1957). hardcover
1951288543London : Hamish Hamilton 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn with some loss and dust-toned dust-wrapper now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 287 pages. Contents; A visitor from down under.--Podolo.--Three or four for dinner.--The travelling grave.--Feet foremost.--The cotillon.--A change of ownership.--The thought.--Conrad and the dragon.--The island.--Night fears.--The killing bottle. Subjects; Hartley Leslie Poles 1895-1972. 20th century fiction. London : Hamish Hamilton hardcover
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8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, backstrip worn (but binding entirely sound), a very good, clean copy. Hilda's Letter occupies pp. 176-212.
