Five Novels

Norfolk: New Directions, 1949. Hardcover. xxxi,,472p., mild shelfwear else very good first edition in green cloth and unclipped, slightly edge-worn dust jacket. The UK edition is Young 1249.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: New Directions, 1981 The cover of the book is dotted with the print of another book that was presumably lying on top of it, creating an interesting but distinct texture. There is a minor stain on the back cover. 341 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you… Read more about this item

A New Directions Book, 1111. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 471 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces… Read more about this item

(Norfolk, Connecticut): New Directions, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Osbert Sitwell. Tiny stains on topedge, lightly sunned spine with a tiny tear at the foot, very good in a toned and soiled, about very good dust jacket with small chips and tears at the edges, and tape shadows on the rear panel.

(Norfolk, Connecticut): New Directions, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Osbert Sitwell. Owner gift inscription on front fly, edge of boards and spine lightly toned with fraying at corners and spine ends, very good, lacking the dust jacket.

London: Duckworth & Co, 1949. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. green cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 471 pp covers are water damaged foxing on the edges and blank pages Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

(New York): New Directions, 1950. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Introduction by Osbert Sitwell. Modest stains on the foredge and bottom corners of the boards, a sound and decent good or better copy lacking the dustwrapper. Fluxus poet and performance artist Jackson Mac Low's copy with his signature on the front pastedown.

LONDON: GERALD DUCKWORTH, 1949 Green Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, top edge stained green, 220 x 145 mm approx. xxxii + 472 pp First Collected edition 1949 with extensive intro. by Osbert Sitwell. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.Good / Poor (Book- Moderate shelf wear and soiling to… Read more about this item

Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd., 1950. Hardcover. Good. 1950. Reprinted. 472 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Top textblock edge dyed green. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to… Read more about this item

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co, 1949. Hardcover. Very good+. Green cloth boards, octavo, frontispiece in b&w, otherwise not illustrated. Book has mild rubbing and wear to boards, corners and spine ends shelfworn, binding tight, previous owner's plate to front pastedown, otherwise text clean and unmarked but toned throughout.

Duckworth, 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. 471 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends… Read more about this item

Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1950. Hardcover. Good. 1950. Reprinted. 471 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper and rear pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

New Directions. Hardback. No date but presumed mid-twentieth century. Introduction by Osbert Sitwell. The work which Firbank originally called Sorrow in Sunlight is published here under its American title Prancing Nigger. 471pp. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine is faded. Tanned to spine. Newslapper article laid in which has caused uneven tannign to endpapers. … Read more about this item

A New Directions Book. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Literature, Fiction, Drama) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

(London: Duckworth: October 1951 AND November 1951) Both volumes reprints of this Collected Edition. The ‘whole of Firbank’s work which appeared in the standard Limited Edition of 1929 is now obtainable again’. With introductions by Osbert Sitwell and Ernest Jones. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xxxii, 472 AND pp. xx, 426. Very good copies with a little chipping… Read more about this item

New York: New Directions, 1981. Card covers in tidy condition, a little rubbed at the edges. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: New Directions. N.D.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj; A bit of fade on cover edge & dust jacket. .

Norfolk, Conn: New Directions, 1950. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good/good. green cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 471 pp dj worn on the edges and torn on the front along the spine covers lightly worn owner's name and date written on the front endpaper Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom… Read more about this item

Duckworth, London., 1949. First collected edition. Octavo. pp xxxii, 472. Introduction by Osbert Sitwell. On the front free endpaper is the small and neat ownership signature of Canadian writer, critic and editor John Metcalf.Patch of fading to head of spine. Very good indeed in good, chipped and nicked dustwrapper, designed by Keith Vaughan, defective at head of spine and… Read more about this item