Search Results: laxdale hall by linklater eric

Jonathan Cape, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1951. First Edition. 301 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Light thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is bowed and forward leaning. Mild sunning to spine and edges.

Jonathan Cape, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1951. First Edition. 301 pages. Red dust jacket over red cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Sticker to front pastedown. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Light crushing to spine ends. Minor marks to boards. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and, creasing. Noticeable tanning to spine. Some rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1951).. First edition.. 301 pp. Light foxing to front and rear endpapers, else near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Poor. Rose coloured cloth covered board silver coloured embossed title to the front panel and back strip. Plaintext dustwrapper with white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Set in the West Highlands of Scotland and in the village of Laxdale, where the villagers and the residents, not to mention the visitors, of Laxdale Hall, are individual if not to say eccentric. This is their tale. Softening and discolouration to the back strip edges with rubbing of the top book corners and lower book edges. Age toning of the text block edges and pages. Shipping of the dustwrapper corners and back strip edges. Creasing of the dustwrapper edges with small closed tears to the top edge. Rubs, stains and very noticeable sunning of the rear panel and heavy fading of the back strip. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More

GB: Cape, 1951. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. BUT endpapers spotted. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. (12s 6d net). . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG+/VG- DW.

Jonathan Cape, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. jacket is worn, torn, clipped on all 4 corners and creased. edge wear and knocking on boards. foxing and marks on both book and jacket . a fair reading copy. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

MacDonald & Co, 1981. Hardback. First edition, 1981. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. NF condition; a few marks on fore edges in VG price-clipped dust jacket; mild edgewear. Published: MacDonald & Co, 1981

London: Jonathan Cape. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 1951. First Edition. Red hardback cloth cover. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 301pp. .

London: Jonathan Cape, 1951. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original red cloth hard covers, in unclipped dust jacket. Toning and foxing to covers, edges endpapers and jacket. Otherwise, clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound copy..

Cape, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. The jacket is a bit marked and torn. Soundly bound. Some foxing. An ownership inscription.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London England: Jonathan Cape, 1951. Hardback. Previous owners name and date to inside cover. Slight foxing to end inside cover. wear and tear to D/J. Price clipped to D/J. Mr. Linklater's new novel is a witty complexity, closely plotted and salted with criticism. Thought the story is confined within a few square miles of Highland scenery, and a couple of weeks in time, it moves as fast and contains as much action and variety as his far-wandering picaresque romances. To the literary map of Britain he has added a new parish that his readers with explore with laughter and excitement, and remember with gratitude. 301 pp. ( We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Harback.

Macdonald Publishers 1981. Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Jonathan Cape. 1951 Jonathan Cape first edition hardback; Good+ with good dj; clean copy, dj is spine-sunned and has edge tears; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Good. Hardback. 1951.

Australia/London: Australasion Publishing Co/Jonathan Cape, 1952. Hardback. Laxdale Hall. Foxing to end inside covers and edge. Slight browning to back D/J. Slightly sunned spine. Laxdale House is a large house in a remote parish of the West Highlands. It is big enough to accommodate not only the General and his eccentric daughter who live there, but such diverse visitors as Samuel Pettigrew M.P., who believes in Socialism Plus, and his charming wife whose demands on life are rather simpler; Olaf Swanson, a successful novelist who is a fugitive from some mysterious disaster; and the leanred Mr. Crantit who has translated a Greek tragedy that is to be performed in unusual circumstances. The people of Laxdale village are as robust of nature and individual in their habit as their neighbours in the Hall, and when the parish is invaded by a gang of poachers from the outer world the developing comedy is quickened by violence, and farce encroaches on the drama. 301 pp. Plastic protective covering. (We carry… Read More

London : J. Cape, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 301p. ; 20cm. Subjects: English fiction.