A Serious Character

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x2. Hardback with dust jacket. No marks and no writings. Dust jacket protected by archival cover.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Hardcover. Small 4to. Cream cloth spine and tan speckled paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 1005pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A tight and handsome first American edition of this massive biography.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. 1005pp. Illustrated from black and white photographic plates. Age-toned pages with foxing on the boards, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper with light internal foxing. Biography.

London: Faber & Faber, 1988. Covers and contents clean and bright but some light spotting to closed page edges. Small and neat previous owner's name on inside front cover. 914 pages with photographs and appendices. Heavy book, wil need extra postage if going abroad.. First Edition. Black Covers. Very Good/Very Good. 6" x 9.5". Hardback.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Uncorrected Proof Copy. With a typed & autographed letter signed from Peter Davison on Houghton Mifflin stationery laid in, dated August 2, 1988, to American writer and literary critic Alfred Kazin. Davison forward the uncorrected proof copy and then adds "I thought you were the perfect devil's advocate (if that is the right term)… Read more about this item

London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1988. [xiv] 1005p., b/w illus., dj.

Houghton Mifflin. Fine+ in Fine dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardback, photos. 0395416787 . Book Very Fine. Square and tight. NO notes. No names or ANY markings (not remaindered) . DJ with a 1/2" cut at top front else VF, not price clipped ($40) ; Ships in a box, USA; 1005 pages .

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First American edition. 1005pp. Illustrated from black and white photographic plates. Some marginalia with age-toned pages, very good in a near fine lightly rubbed dustwrapper.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 1988. Hardcover. USED Good.

London: Faber and Faber, 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. xii, 1005pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Fine in a lightly rubbed, near fine dust jacket with gently bumped spine ends and corners, the front lower corner with a small tear. With a publisher's slip laid in, signed by John Bodley.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. First American Edition. Quarter Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. xii, 1001 pp., illus. Slightest wear to top edge of both the book and the jacket, some slight yellowing due to cheap paper but still a nearly fine copy.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. First American edition. Hardcover. Extremely mild bumping and rubbing to corners, faint soiling to spine and fore-edges, exceedingly gentle rubbing to spine head and foot, pale soiling to board edges, bright pages, tight binding, extremely mild rubbing to DJ spine head and foot, light soiling to rear DJ, exceedingly gentle rubbing to DJ corners, else… Read more about this item

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter white cloth and tan boards with the spine stamped in gilt.

Houghton Mifflin (T), 1988-11. Hardcover. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

London, Faber and Faber, 1988. Hardcover. Fair. Some small stains on cut; dust jacket damaged: small pieces missing.

Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

MA: Houghton, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First am. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Dustwrapper general wear. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.