Search Results: Titles starting with S from WhoByBooks

London: W.H. Allen, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Upper corner boards bumped. Numerous contributors.

London: W. H. Allen, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Mr. Sillitoe's first novel. Pages browning with age and edge papers lightly soiled. DJ shows edge wear (rubbing and chipping, small closed tears) at top/bot of spine as well as corners. Signed bookplate laid in.

London: Methuen, 1966. First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine. A Methuen playscript. Ownership signature to inside front cover.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Everything about this book is great: a great screenplay by a great playwright of a great movie based on the great book by the great writer John Fowles. Signed by Fowles on title page. "John Fowles 1998, Toronto". Uncorrected Proof. Vary scarce. INCLUDED is: "The French Lieutenant's Woman. New York: Little Brown, 1969. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Book. Very Good / Good. Some foxing to top edge papers, corners sharp. DJ is price clipped with edge wear esp. to heel of spine. Good+. NOT signed."

Cambridge, Maryland U.S.A.: Cornell Maritime Pr/Tidewater Pub, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. PO blind stamp on title page. DJ has a touch of edge wear with a 1 cm closed tear/crease to crown.

New York: Murray Hill Books, 1944. Illustrated Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Gordon Grant. Mapped end papers. DJ is price clipped, edge worn, spine sun faded with a small perforation near heel.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1979. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. Fletcher Martin. Introduction by Edmund Gilligan. Part of the Easton Press series: "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". Collector's Edition. No jacket as issued.[oversize]

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. DJ has minor rubbing and edge wear. From the author of such favourites as "The Secret Islands" and "Watchers at the Pond".

London: Unwin Hyman Ltd., 1989. First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good. Rubbing and edge wear. From the library of the fine Canadian witer Diane Schoemperlen.

London: Collins, 1962. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. DJ has a closed 2 cm tear at upper front with mild rubbing an tanning to edges. Small neat ownership signature on FFEP. some discolouration/stains to edge papers.

New York: Vantage Pr, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Penguin Books, 1951. Soft cover. Very Good. A nice copy with a new preface by the author. Some spotting on cover near the fore edge with wear to heel of spine. Part of 'The Penguin Poet' Series.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by author on publisher pasted in bookplate. DJ has some small diagonal creasing to lower front flap. RFEP has light vertical crease. Noble laureate, often referred to as a 'modern-day' Chekhov.

Canada: Talonbooks, 1980. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Corners not sharp and paper is age darkening.

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Fine. The first novel by the Booker winning author of The Life of Pi. A inventive writer.

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1992. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Some more magical realism ... this time from the popular de Bernieres, author of the bestseller Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which has subsequently been made into an insipid movie version. This is the British writer's second novel.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Raincoast Books, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New.

London: The Bodley Head Ltd, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. An early novel by the then young and noted female American novelist. FFEP has a light crease with a small smudge on the half title with dust jacket (edge wear at top, spine, & small spot to front).

New York: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The controversial writers third novel signed on blank bookplate and pasted to half-title. Price clipped with a tiny nick to the DJ spine at crown. First American Edition.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The third novel (short-listed for the '83 Booker and winner of the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger) from this prolific and controversial author, who won the 1981 Booker prize for Midnight's Children. Fine in a near fine dust jacket (small glue spot on inside lower back). True First.