Resultados da Pesquisa: the place at whitton por thomas keneally

New York: Belmont Books. Fair/No Dj. 1971. Reprint. paperback. Mass Market Clean, tight with light cover wear. .

UNITED STATES: Bolinda Audio, 2013. Audio Book. Very Good. AUDIO CD. 7 NEW AUDIO CDs. You will receive BRAND NEW AUDIO CDs New in the Shrink Wrap. Some shelf wear to the shrink wrap. NEW CDs inside. Gift quality for your home and library. Enjoy this NEW Audio CD performance..

Corgi, UK, 1966. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 190 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Corgi, UK, 1966. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have moderate wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are considerably tanned. Previous owner's name in ink. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Tom Keneally's first novel, a psychological mystery, was published after his time in a seminary. Fifty years on, this anniversary edition is being released with a new author's note about the novel and fifty years of writing. In the shocking dirt of the cement floor, Wally lay now, indiscriminately felled amongst the piglets, prostrate on his stomach with his head on his side. Someone had battered him about the head and then strangled him with a noose of thin rope. When a man is found brutally murdered in Whitton's monastery, Dr Stenner, Whitton's president, is horrified. Could it possibly be the work of one of his priests? A nightmare… Ler mais

Walker And Company. 1964. First edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. moderate shelfwear, mild general toning.

New York: Walker and Company, 1965. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 1" tear to top front dust jacket, 3/4" square discoloration also to front. 1/2" chip missing from top rear to otherwise crisp dust jacket. Text fine.

New York: Walker & Co, 1965. First U.S. edition. Gently bumped, pages tanned. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, rear panel and flap folds tanned, in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Walker and Company. Collectible - Very Good. 1965, 1st US, author's first book. Purplish brown hardcovers. Light wear to spine ends. Address stamps on fep and front paste down. Interior is clean and binding sound. Pages are browned. Dust jacket is rubbed and edge worn, dj spine ends chipped. Old price sticker to dj rear.

New York: Walker and Company, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo., 218pp. Sharp First US Edition, published a year earlier in the UK by Cassel. Bound in maroon cloth with titles in white on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with a touch of wear at the spine ends but quite minor. Page edges toned. A few tiny spots on the fore-edge. Equally attractive unclipped dust jacket, ($3.50), has a tiny chip from the top edge of the front flap. A touch of soiling on the rear panel. Still quite fresh and bright with no creases, tears or the rubbing that is so frequently seen with this black jacket. A very pretty collectable copy of the author's first book. (Hubin, p.229).

audioCD. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

NY: Walker, 1964. The first U.S. edition of the author's first book. Dustwrapper shows light edgewear and some typical scuffing to panels. Archival tape repair to obverse of half-title page. Overall, a very acceptable copy of this rather scarce mystery by the author who went on to write Schindler's List. This book is a Walker Mystery. . First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG+.

London: Cassell, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 219 p. 21 cm. Black cloth hardcover in mylar-covered dustjacket. Dustjacket has chipps and soiling. Front free endpaper clipped. A bit of label stuck to front free. The first novel by Australian writer Thomas Keneally, best known for Schindler's Ark. A psychological mystery set in a Catholic seminary, published after his own time in a similar school.

Cassell . London, London, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. The author's first work. "Outsiders had always distrusted the isolation of the place at Whitton. Locked away behind its tall gates, this college for priests, this close society where men withdrew from the world around them, was bound to excite rumour and fear. Now the battered corpse of Wally Stott lay gruesomely in one of the college pig-pens. it had to be the work of a stranger, was the first, shocked reaction. But Sergeant Ptolemy of the New South Wales police was not convinced. Yet for all his vigilance the piece of the college were shattered again and again, death following death in a dark maelstrom of violence which dragged down together the innocent and the guilty, normal and insane <snip> Agnes Grey, using the primitive craft and her beauty to seduce recent and will from the victims and open their minds to the… Ler mais

London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1964. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Signed bookplate loosely laid-in; Octavo (20cm); black boards titled in gilt on the spine; tiny "K" embossed on the rear cover; dustjacket; 220pp.; foxing to the endpapers and textblock, affecting the margins of several pages of text; Very Good. The dustjacket is price-clipped with rubbing and nicks to the extremities; minor ink touch-up to verso; Very Good or better. Author's first book- "Outsiders had always distrusted the isolation of the place at Whitton. Locked away behind its tall gates, this college for priests...dedicating their youth and freedom to a mysterious unseen God. The battered corpse of Wally Scott lay gruesomely in one of the college pig-pens. Sergeant Ptolemy was tracking a homocidal maniac..." HUBIN, p.236.

New York: Walker & Co., 1965. 219pp. Dark red boards, white lettering on the spine. Light toning to the endpapers, and even toning to the text, othewise an exceptional copy. Stated "first pulished 1965", indicating first Edition. Unclipped black pictorial jacket (Design by Christopher Simon) is bright with very minor wear to the lower edge of the spine. in mylar sleeve. "The novel is set in a large seminary where, in eight weeks' time, 200 young men are to be ordained as Catholic priests. Then preparations are interrupted by the murders of one of the lay labourers and the scholarly rector." This is Thomas Keneally's first novel. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+/Near Fine. Octavo.

Cassell, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 220 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Edges browned slightly. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Australia; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 33281. .

NEW YORK NY: WALKER & CO. NF/VG+. 1965. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. ISBN: AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. BOOK HAS A SMALL ABRASION ON THE BOTTOM FRONT FORE-EDGE CORNER. D.J.HAS A BIT OF WEAR AT CORNERS AND SPINE-ENDS WITH A FEW SHORT EDGE TEARSALONG THE TOP EDGE, AND SOME LIGHT SURFACE CHIPPING ON THE FRONT FLAPVERTICAL FOLD. A VERY NICE COPY.. Keywords: MYSTERY, FIRST BOOK, ABCDEF.

(London: Cassell: 1964) First British Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. iv, 220. From the library of Paul McGuire, crime novelist turned diplomat, with a gift inscription on front free endpaper to him from Reggie Harris. A near fine copy in near fine price-clipped dust-jacket which is a little bruised at the head and foot of its spine.

London: Cassell, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's black boards (with a small k embossed on the back board) with gilt lettering. First UK Edition. Base of spine panel bumped. Spine slanted. Boards slightly bowed. Corners tight and square. Several pages turned. Overall a VG copy. In a good only price-clipped D/W which is rubbed, creased and with a long closed tear to the rear panel (repaired on the verso) which also has a chip from the bottom right hand corner. Looks nicer than it sounds.

London: Cassell, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Cassell, 1964 (first edition). Octavo, [iv], 220 pages. Black papered boards lettered in gilt on the spine; neat ownership signature on the front free endpaper; top edge slightly foxed, with minimal light foxing to the leading edge and the endpapers; an excellent copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper a little rubbed at the head of the spine and along the joints, and in a few spots on the front panel, with a small mark and some offsetting onto the white panel at the rear. The author's scarce first book.

New York: Walker, 1964. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Minor wear to the extremities and some toning to the rear white panel. The first book by Australian best seller Thomas Keneally, best known for his novel that was made into the film Schindler's List. This is a mystery set in a Catholic seminary in Sydney, Australia. Signed by the author on the title page with his smiley face.