Kingfishers Catch Fire

NY. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Cloth; The Viking Press; 1953; First . Edition. Godden, Rumer. Kingfisher Catch Fire. NY: The Viking Press, First Edition, 1953, 282 pp. Illustrated dust wrapper, jacket design by Robert Hallock, light rubbing to edges. Green cloth boards with darker green titles to spine and front board. … Read more about this item

0 First Edition/First Printing published by Macmillan, London, 1953. VG clean condition. No marks or inscriptions. Clean cloth covers with slight fading to spine

New York: The Viking Press, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st US edition. Godden returns to an Indian setting for this novel of ex-pat life in Kashmir. Minor spotting to block edge but this rarely intrudes onto pages which are in VG, clean and bright order throughout. Former owner's… Read more about this item

Toronto: World Books 280 pp. Rumer Godden lived for more than half of her life in India. Although not autobiographical this book is like her life there. Her heroine, Sophie, makes a herb farm, works in her garden and teaches her children. Dilkusha, the house in Kingfishers Catch Fire, is the real house Rumer Godden lived in, in the mountains… Read more about this item

Viking, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($3.50 price intact). Published by Viking Press, 1953. Octavo. Green cloth boards stamped in gold. Book is very good with no writing. Blue topstain. Light fading along the edges and minor shelf wear. Sharp corners and spine straight. Dust jacket is very… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1953. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The interior of the book is clean and unmarked. The red cloth covers are fresh and clean, with just a bit of wear at tips and corners. The gilt spine lettering is still bright. The dust jacket is price-clipped, but is otherwise in very good condition, with light… Read more about this item

The Reprint Society London 1955 . 7x5" Blue Boards HB.with Gilt on Black Block RS Spine Design. Good++ Clean bright and Tight throughout. 280pp

New York, New York: Dell, 1965. Book. Very Fine. Soft cover. First Printing. Fiction paperback, 1st printing, 6/65. Condition is very fine, has light edge wear, no creases, no writing or stamps, no tanning, cover bright and glossy, a beautiful looking book.on spine, top corner of back cover creased/bumped. No writing or stamps, cover art bright and glossy...*We have other… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1953. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Slightly cocked spine, faint spotting, and owner name on the front free endpaper else about near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some toning on the spine.

New York, NY: Viking Press. Good in Good dust jacket;. 1953. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 282 pages; DJ rubbed at edges w/staining at head of spine, two tiny holes punched through at spine middle. Mylar cover. Two tiny holes at same area of spine, not frayed nor broken.… Read more about this item

Reprint Society. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1955. Hardback.

Macmillan & Co. Ltd, London, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/No Dust Jacket. Author's note. Red coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles and illustration to the back strip. Sophie Barrington Ward finds herself without a husband and two children to look after. Her friends begged her to go… Read more about this item

NY: Viking Press, 1953. First American Edition; dj w/clipped price; 282 clean, unmarked pages. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8 vo.

New York: Viking, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good. Hardcover rubbed at spine ends and corners, cover and foredges lightly soiled, spine browned. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Viking. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Nice copy with dustjacket ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Hardcover. 282 pp. The Viking Press, New York (1953). First Edition. "Published by The Viking Press May 1953" on Copyright Page. 1953 on Title Page. Block and pages are clean and unmarked except for minor soiling, sunning and shelf wear. Book is in Very Good condition. Dust Jacket is Acceptable, with chipping and losses at edges. More photos upon request.… Read more about this item

New York: Dell, 1965. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. spine creases, covers have several chips, corner missing. good reading copy. Set in Kashmir, this is the story of Sophie, a young and idealistic English woman with two young daughters who decides to set up house in a remote… Read more about this item

The Viking Press, 1953. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. Book club edition, near fine hardcover shows light shelfwear including a touch of bumping, in a very good + dust jacket that shows light soiling and edgewear including tiny closed tears. 282 pages. Still a pleasing copy of this novel from the noted author of Black Narcissus.… Read more about this item

1953 Copyright date, Book-of-the-Month Club* Selection, with good dust jacket. Pages clean and unmarked; slightly tanned. Normal wear for an old book; nothing overly bad. [BX305]

The Reprint Society, 1955. hardcover. Good/Good Jacket. 7x5x1. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.