The Young Have Secrets

Very good clean copy with tight binding. Tanning to dustcover and spine. Cover illustration by Pat Marriott

London: Jonathan Cape and The Book Society, 1954. Book Club Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Good Condition. 19.5cm x 13cm. 270 pages. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket. The Book Club Edition published simultaneously with the first. Minor shelf and handling wear. Slightly cocked. The Book Society bookplate. Jacket tanned. Shipped Weight: .36 kilos. BZDB407 Fiction; Unbranded… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape and the Book Society., 1954. Bound in publishers brown cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. The 270 pages are in presentable condition with one neat ownership inscription to the front endpaper. Housed in the distinctive dustwrapper which still retains original publishers printed price and has slight overall wear, otherwise in very good condition. A nice… Read more about this item

Cassell, London, 1980. Hardcover. 8vo, Reprint. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket: Good..

Ace 1958 Paperback. Fair. Spotting and tanning. Front cover beginning to loosen.

Jonathan Cape and The Book Society, 1954. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1954. First Edition. 270 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Dent to top edge of rear board. Clipped jacket… Read more about this item

Allen & Unwin. Good. 17.8 x 11.1 centimetres (0.14 kg. Paperback. 1985. 251 pages. Cover worn.<br>During the 1914-18 war, a young boy is sent down from the high country to board with the schoolmaster's family in summer, near Christchurch. He becomes a reluctant parti cipant in the tangled lives of the three daughters of the house, Rose,… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape and the Book Society, 1954. Previous owners bookplate just inside the cover (on the front pastedown endpaper, unfilled) and corner creasing from an external bump. Corners of the brown boards have been bumped. DJ has edge/rub wear and browning to the spine. Actual book for sale pictured. 13.8 x 19.5 x 2.4 cm, wt499g . First… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape, 1954. ~No ownership marks. Pictorial coloured dustwrapper slightly darkened on spine but unclipped and protected in removable clear plastic sleeve. Spine slightly cocked. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request.. 1st edn. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 270pp. Binding sound, text unmarked.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. Binding dull; dent on spine; small mark top corner prelims. New Zealand novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

London: Jonathan Cape & the Book Society , 1954. Spine dull, bookplate on flyleaf, endpapers bit foxed; dustwrapper darkened on spine, slightly frayed top of spine; four corners of dustwrapper are slightly clipped, but not to remove price. New Zealand novel. Published simultaneous with first edition. Book Society Edition . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.