Five Novels

(Norfolk, Connecticut): New Directions, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Osbert Sitwell. Tiny stains on topedge, lightly sunned spine with a tiny tear at the foot, very good in a toned and soiled, about very good dust jacket with small chips and tears at the edges, and tape shadows on the rear panel.

(Norfolk, Connecticut): New Directions, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Osbert Sitwell. Owner gift inscription on front fly, edge of boards and spine lightly toned with fraying at corners and spine ends, very good, lacking the dust jacket.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: New Directions, 1981 The cover of the book is dotted with the print of another book that was presumably lying on top of it, creating an interesting but distinct texture. There is a minor stain on the back cover. 341 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you… Ler mais sobre este item

A New Directions Book, 1111. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 471 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces… Ler mais sobre este item

(New York): New Directions, 1950. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Introduction by Osbert Sitwell. Modest stains on the foredge and bottom corners of the boards, a sound and decent good or better copy lacking the dustwrapper. Fluxus poet and performance artist Jackson Mac Low's copy with his signature on the front pastedown.

LONDON: GERALD DUCKWORTH, 1949 Green Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, top edge stained green, 220 x 145 mm approx. xxxii + 472 pp First Collected edition 1949 with extensive intro. by Osbert Sitwell. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.Good / Poor (Book- Moderate shelf wear and soiling to… Ler mais sobre este item

Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

London: Duckworth & Co, 1949. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. green cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 471 pp covers are water damaged foxing on the edges and blank pages Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1950. Hardcover. Good. 1950. Reprinted. 471 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper and rear pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

New York: New Directions, 1981. Card covers in tidy condition, a little rubbed at the edges. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Directions. Hardback. No date but presumed mid-twentieth century. Introduction by Osbert Sitwell. The work which Firbank originally called Sorrow in Sunlight is published here under its American title Prancing Nigger. 471pp. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine is faded. Tanned to spine. Newslapper article laid in which has caused uneven tannign to endpapers. … Ler mais sobre este item

Duckworth, 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. 471 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends… Ler mais sobre este item

A New Directions Book. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Literature, Fiction, Drama) 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.

New York: New Directions. N.D.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj; A bit of fade on cover edge & dust jacket. .

(London: Duckworth: October 1951 AND November 1951) Both volumes reprints of this Collected Edition. The ‘whole of Firbank’s work which appeared in the standard Limited Edition of 1929 is now obtainable again’. With introductions by Osbert Sitwell and Ernest Jones. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xxxii, 472 AND pp. xx, 426. Very good copies with a little chipping… Ler mais sobre este item

Norfolk: New Directions, (1961).. First US edition.. xxxi + 471 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with a chip and several creases around the crown. Introduction by Osbert Sitwell. Collects VALMOUTH, THE ARTIFICIAL PRINCESS, THE FLOWER BENEATH THE FOOT, PRANCING NIGGER, and THE ECCENTRICITIES OF CARDINAL PIRELLI. Young 1249 (1949 UK ed).

New York: New Directions, 1981. 1st Edition thus . Soft cover. Near Fine. 4269 shelf. #NDP518. Solid trade paperback, photo white covers. Faint sticker scar back cover. No names, clean text. Intro: Osbert Sitwell. The Flower Beneath the Foot, Prancing Nigger, Valmouth, The Artificial Princess, Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli

Norfolk, Conn: New Directions, 1950. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good/good. green cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 471 pp dj worn on the edges and torn on the front along the spine covers lightly worn owner's name and date written on the front endpaper Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom… Ler mais sobre este item

Duckworth, London., 1949. First collected edition. Octavo. pp xxxii, 472. Introduction by Osbert Sitwell. On the front free endpaper is the small and neat ownership signature of Canadian writer, critic and editor John Metcalf.Patch of fading to head of spine. Very good indeed in good, chipped and nicked dustwrapper, designed by Keith Vaughan, defective at head of spine and… Ler mais sobre este item