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Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition Good/No Jacket. 1st Edition Stated No marks noted in text. Binding is sound. No dust jacket. Cloth boards are lightly stained. 5 Short Stories included are: 1.) Narrative -- 2.) Feud -- 3.) John Muck -- 4.) Rubbish -- 5.) Greaser Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . James (Joseph) Hanley (3 September 1897 - 11 November 1985) was a British novelist, short story writer, and playwright from Kirkdale, Liverpool, Lancashire, of Irish descent. Hanley came from a seafaring family and spent two years at sea himself, during World War I. He published his first novel Drift in 1930. In the 1930s and 1940s his novels and short stories focussed on seamen and their families, and included Boy (1931), the subject of an obscenity trial. After World War II there was less emphasis on the sea in his works. While frequently praised by critics, Hanley's novels did not sell well. In the late 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s he wrote plays, mainly for the BBC, for… Read More

Knopf , NY , 1932 First Edition Stated 298 page Hardcover Lacking the dust Jacket Good only copy with soiling to the covers, lightly bumped at corners, small stain in the top edge of the top margin of the first 75 pages. Lacking the jacket. See Photos clphE

Nicholson & Watson, 1948. Hardcover. Good. 1948. Reprinted. 128 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Minor fraying to cloth at spine ends. Sunning to spine and boards. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.

London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd.. Very Good-. (1931). Hardcover. 323 pages, 7 1/2" x 5", black cloth with gilt printing to the spine. Slight bump down the middle of the spine, spine ends and corners are scuffed and rubbed. Previous owner signed the front endpages and the title page. The covers are just slightly scuffed, otherwise contents are complete and nice. Near Very Good. .

UsedAcceptable. 1932 Knopf Press stated 1st edition. Reading copy. Will have moderate to heavy reading/age wear and/or cracked/loose hinges or binding. May have moderate to heavy markings, staining and/or water warping. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.

London 1931 1st John Lane. Sm.8vo., 323pp., black cloth. VG, a bit of soiling on front free blanks, no DJ.

London,, 1948. Reprint. Hardback. No Dust Jacket.. Very good. Decent copy. . 8vo. pp 128. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered black on spine.

Bodley Head, 1931. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Limited/Numbered. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies.Smaller version of dust jacket tipped-in by publisher. Couple corners lightly bumped. Single library bookplate to front paste down, with no other markings..

NY: Knopf,, 1932.. First edition.. xi + 287 pp. Very near fine in very good plus dust jacket with shallow chipping to spine and a tear to the top edge of the rear flap fold. Preface by John Cowper Powys.

London, John Lane The Bodley Head 1931.. xiv+322pp. 8vo. Original cloth in chipped dustwrapper with piece missing from upper backstrip affecting some text. Light foxing to edges. Stamp on ffe. A very good copy.. First edition.

John Lane The Bodley Head, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 323 pages. Preface by John Cowper Powys. Limited to 105 copies on specially made rag paper. Gibbs, James Hanley: A Bibliography A5a. First edition (first printing). Minor edge wear and light toning to end papers thus a fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Fine, tipped in wrapper of the trade edition designed by Alan Odle; with additional spine label tipped in at the rear. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Copy number 70.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1932. First American Edition. Hardcover. [beautiful copy with just a touch of fading to cloth along edges of covers, minor bumping to bottom rear corner; jacket shows a bit of wear at spine ends, but is generally just as nice as the book itself]. The first book by this British writer (born in Liverpool to Irish parents) to be published in the United States; its stories, like much of his early fiction, are centered around either the sea or the Irish Catholic working class of Liverpool. In his Preface, John Cowper Powys writes that he has "never read anything in fiction that brings the abominable suffering that goes on all the time among the exploited of the earth so savagely and unsparingly home." Hanley also wrote many novels with a Welsh background (he lived mostly in Wales from 1931 until 1963), and supported himself by writing plays for radio, television, and the stage during the 1960s, before returning to the novel in… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Faint spotting else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight fading on the spine.

London, John Lane The Bodley Head [1931]., 1931. First edition (so stated). 8vo. Preface by John Cowper Powys. Jacket illustration by Alan Odle. Original gilt stamped black cloth, top edge stained red. Dust jacket (unclipped; few nicks, 2 short tears). Very good. No signatures or bookplates.. F. Hardcover.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Hanley to Joseph Greene on ffep. Stated First Edition. Gray cloth boards stamped in burgundy and black on spine, with a black pictorial on the front cover (same vignette on title page). Cloth shows some foxing/discoloration on spine and around edges. Interior is clean and unmarked. xi, 297, [2] pages. Dust jacket is edgeworn; chipped around spine ends and corners; some color bleed in the lower-left corner of front panel; in an archival mylar sleeve. Inscribed to Joseph Greene, an early friend of Hanley's in Liverpool, to whom he also dedicated his first novel, Drift. ''To my friend Joseph Greene / with all [good wishes?] / James Hanley''.

New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1932. Advance Review Copy. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Small Octavo. 128pp.,with preface by John Cowper Powys; red printed paper covered boards; upper hinge starting, but strong. Light wear at spine ends, small loss to head. A very nice copy in glassine wrapper protected in mylar.

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1931. . First edition, 8vo., pp.xiv,323, black cloth, gilt, top edges red; foxing to fore-edges, slight toning and foxing to free endpapers, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has 1.5cm closed tear to rear upper edge, small closed tear and creasing to foot of front flap-fold, and very slight chipping to extremities, now in a protective cover and o/w very good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. An collection of five stories intended by the publisher to introduce Hanley as a major, if controversial, new talent; Knopf had published in the same year his novel "Boy," which had been withdrawn as obscene in England. First published in England by John Lane in 1931. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First American Edition (stated First Edition). Less common than the English. Light gray cloth binding, with titling on the spine inred and black; the front cover reproduces the powerful image of the dustjacket. Clean text; xii, 298 pages; with a Preface by the English philosopher/novelist John Cowper Powys (1872-1963). A sound copy, with some sunfade around the margins. Small set of initials by a previous-owner on the FFEP. The dustjacket is unclipped (although it is without a price; possible an advance review copy); it shows some chipping at the head and foot of the spine, which is a bit darkened. There are tape repairs on the reverse, which are not… Read More

John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1931. First edition. Limited edition of 105 copies. This was the author's copy, signed by the author and with a presentation inscription on ffep. 8vo, 323pp. A very good hardback copy in papered boards and cloth spine. Boards have bumped and slightly frayed corners. Fore edges are tanned and slightly foxed. A light offsetting to endpapers. .

ODLE, Alan. HANLEY, James. Men in Darkness. Five Stories. With a Preface by John Cowper Powys. Frontispiece by Alan Odle [of his design for the dust jacket of the ordinary edition]. Orig. cloth-backed boards with paper label on spine. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1931]. First edition. One of 105 large-paper copies printed on specially made rag paper and signed by the author. A fine copy.