The Very Fine Clock by SPARK, Muriel - 1968

London: Macmillan and Co, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gorey, Edward. The jacket is creased, shelf stained, chipped at the edges with a biro squiggle across the clock. It also suffers from loss at the head of the front flap which has caused minor damage to the edge; there's an ownership signature on the front end paper and another biro squiggle on the back end paper, this one more substantial than the one on the jacket. The verso of the front end paper carries a small stain and minor foxing as does the following page. The jacket is not pretty, but apart from described faults, the body of the book is in very good condition, clean, unmarked and solid. Oblong format, every second page is an illustration, unpaged. First British edition.

Knopf, 1968. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London; Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1968., 1968. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Landscape octavo, pp. [32]. 13 full page illustrations by Edward Gorey, plus pictorial endpapers and 2 vignettes. Publishers' purple cloth with silver titles to spine, in price clipped pictorial dust-jacket also by Gorey. Board edges are very lightly sunned. Light creasing to dustjacket with 2 cm closed tear to spine head and light wear to edges. Light foxing to verso of dustjacket. Near Fine book in Very Good jacket. First Edition of Spark's first children's book, illustrated in characteristic gothic style by Edward St. John Gorey.

Macmillan , 1969 Oblong 8vo (17 x 23.5 cm), [32] pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed at extremities, small tear at the head of the spine). Muriel Spark's first children's book Illustrated by Edward Gorey. The first UK edition.

Knopf, 1968. Book. Illus. by Edward Gorey. Fine. Hardcover. First Ed. First ed. Fine/Fine condition..

London: Macmillan, 1969. A first edition, first printing published by Macmillan in 1969. A very good book with some spotting to the front endpaper, without inscriptions. In the very good clipped wrapper with a closed tear to the bottom edge of the front panel. Spark's first (and only?) children's book.

Macmillan, 1969. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.