The Hand-Reared Boy by Brian Aldiss (editor) - 1970

Orion Publishing Group, Limited. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. the jacket is shelf rubbed and a bit edge worn, small tears. mild tanning. small tears on front end page. book was re printed before publication. well bound. good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. Very Good in a Near Fine dustjacket. Red boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 189pps. There is mild rubbing to the board-edges and there is a faint pencil erasure in the upper corner of the ffep. Also, several pages had been dog-earred. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has light touches of rubbing wear at the extremities; the original price is intact. "...The first of a quartet of novels which will span the four decades from the thirties through to the sixties, in the form of fictitious autobiography. The quartet will reveal with increasing power the malformation of spiritual and sexual life by the anti-human preconceptions of our century. The novels will also expose the poverty of art and human involvement of the English middle classes. This is the background schema of the novels. On the surface they present merely the rackety, impudent and apologetic… Read More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. A Very Good unmarked copy which has a very minor indentation to top edge and age darkening to closed edges with dustjacket which has two small repaired closed tears and is not price clipped. This is the first of a quartet of novels which will span the four decades from the thirties to the sixties, in the form of fictitious autobiography. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.