THE ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD A Conversation Piece by Evelyn Waugh - 1957

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1957. (USA) 1st American edition. No markings, Very Good in unclipped Good dust jacket with chip to top corner of front panel. DJ is in mylar sleeve. Red boards with black spine, 232pp. This is a novel about a middle age writer who suffers a "case of nerves" and was written by Waugh after a bout of "hallucination". (1.7 JM HOQ 102/b1. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Boston / Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 232. Book is fine, in price-clipped DJ with a small spot of soiling on rear panel.

E-077: Chapman and Hall. Very Good. 1955. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Chapman & Hall, London, UK. 1957. 88 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (front panel has a piece missing front the panel). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Gilbert Pinfold is a reclusive Catholic novelist suffering from acute inertia. In an attempt to defeat insomnia he has been imbibing an unappetizing cocktail of bromide, chloral, and creme de menthe. He books a passage on the SS Caliban and, as it cruises towards Ceylon, rapidly slips into madness. Almost as soon as the gangplank lifts, Pinfold hears sounds coming out of the ceiling of his cabin: wild jazz bands, barking dogs, and loud revival meetings. He is convinced that an erratic public-address system is letting him hear… Read More

Boston/ Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. 232 pp. Name on first free endpaper.. First Am. edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Chapman & Hall. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1957. Hardback. Dust jacket bright and stiff, piece missing from bottom of spine, , corners of jacket rubbed, sellotape repair to bottom right of front panel, wrapped in a removable archival sleeve; Boards bound in fine navy cloth with sharp corners, some fading to bottom of spine, small dent to top of front board; Internally clean, no ownership mark or annotation; Binding tight. ; 19 x 14 x 2 cm; 184 pages .

Chapman & Hall, 1957. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A book in very good condition, some very mild shelfwear to cover; foxed unclipped wrapper is worn with some small areas of loss, short tears and one longer one to the top of the front flap fold..

London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1957 VG+/VG-. 12mo. original blue cloth gilt (prev. ownership details to FFE, occ. speckling to leaf edges) in dustwrapper (spine slightly sunned, edges rubbed & slightly frayed, chip lost from top edge rear panel); pp. [viii (last blank)], 184. A very good copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG-.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1957. Un volume (19 cm) di 184 pagine. In lingua inglese. First Edition. Tela editoriale blu con titolo dorato al dorso, una macchia chiara al piatto posteriore; senza sovracoperta (no dust jacket); peraltro buone condizioni.

Hardback. 1957. 184pp Chapman & Hall, London, 1957. 1st edition. VG copy in VG DW not price-clipped. .

Boston: Little, Brown, [1957] First American edition. Boards. Octavo. Very good in very good jacket. Jacket is chipped at head and foot of spine, but unfaded and not price-clipped.