Search Results: Books by radclyffe hall havelock

NY: Covici. Fair. 1929. 6th ptg. A lesbian story that created a sensation in Britain when it was published and later withdrawn as well as in NY where Macy's was . raided and copies seized. Two newspaper clippings with pictures of Hall on half title page. A rather beaten up copy with heavy edge wear and fading to binding. Owner name ft endpaper. .

New York: Pocket Books, 1964. Paperback. 437p., wraps lightly worn, spine creased, pages evenly toned, else very good reprint mass-market paperback edition, complete and unabridged, in pictorial wraps. Grier A B C*** Pocket 75020.

Sun Dial Press, January 1928. Hardcover. Good - Cash/No Jacket. General surface and edge wear. The corners have been bumped. The boards are beginning to show in the corners. The cover is beginning to fray where the boards are exposed. Rippling to the top left corner of the back cover. The first endpage has been torn out. Pages show reader wear. A few pages have underlining and notations. Binding is tight and pages are secure. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1936. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Turquoise Cloth Printed In Red. Wear With A Few Points Of Fraying At Corners; Bookplate Of Marion Dodge And Her Ownership Signature, And With A Fine 1926 Studio Portrait Of Her, In The Studio Card Frame. Dj Worn, Small Chips, Tears, Spine Faded But Lettering Clear, Dj States "Third 100,000" And Book States 13Th Printing, 1936. Dodge Was Later A Librarian At Ucla, And Wife Of Artist Sam Hyde Harris.

Blue Ribbon Books, 1928. Hardcover w dj. Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes ; Good or Better hardcover with acceptable dust jacket, minor wear to covers, spine faded, tearing and chipping to dust cover, 8vo, 506 pp.

Covici, Friede, Publishers, New York, 1928. This is the third printing of this well-known classic work. It has been nicely rebound in a modernist style, half leather over paper covered boards. The spine is tooled in gilt with red labels. There is no binders stamp or ticket but the binding is of good quality. The leather is a rich purple crushed morocco and the paper covered boards have an abstract angular design. Some slight wear to the extremities and a few small scratches on the paper covered boards but overall a very attractive binding. The text is clean and unmarked. Laid in is an old sales ticket from 1981 from Brick Row Bookshop in San Francisco.

UK true 1st Edition / 1st Printing with uncorrected 'whip' on line 13, page 50. Very Good condition, with ownership name/date to front endpaper. Leading edges rough cut, as issued. In near Good original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (Published price 15s). The wrapper has loss to the lower spine affecting most of the publisher's details, closed tears (with archival tape and paper repairs mainly to folds / spine head and tail), and browning/soiling.Radclyffe Hall was well known in London literary circles and had already been published to some acclaim by Jonathan Cape. However, in August 1928 the Home Secretary (a Christian fundamentalist) was persuaded that the author's new book 'The Well of loneliness' was profane. He banned the book from sale. The publishers Jonathan Cape made secret arrangements with a French publisher, 'Pegasus Press', for the book to be sold in France. But on 3 October 1928 a warrant was issued for Customs and Excise to seize and destroy the books crossing the channel. A… Read More