ARLEN, MICHAEL ORIGINALLY DIKRAN KUYUMJIAN (11 résultats)

Softcover. Etat : Good. Reprint. Right-hand corner of the front panel has been bumped, and there are a couple of scratch marks on the spine at the top section, as well as abrasion taking up the word "these" on the spine This is the first Penguin Edition. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 0272401.

Hardcover (Laminated Boards). Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Reprint. Plain laminated boards with black and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Plain text dustwrapper, as for underlying boards, with black and white collar titles to the front panel and backstrip. "These are tales of Mayfair before offices and the businessmen took over; of Mayfair in the Twenties when it was still the home of sophisticated people with the money and the leisure to play the games of life and love to the full. "These Charming People" Michael Allen calls them, with a characteristic blend of irony and affection." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. Softening of the backstrip edges with rubbing of the book corners. Age toning of the textblock edges and pages. Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and backstrip edges. Rubbing to the panels with sunning of the rear panel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 260, [6] pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Short Stories; Britain/UK; 1920s; Inventory No: 0118544.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Etat : Fair. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Note. Black coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. A series of linked stories about a possible future written in the 1930s. In this book a global transportation system -- International Aircraft and Airways, Inc., becomes the new global government ". it was armed with a superb ambition, to dragoon the nations of the world into a colossal scheme of tidiness."  from Note, page IX. Softening to the head and to the heel of the spine and to the book corners. Underlying board visible to the book corners. Flecking to the board edges with the results of insect activity seen to the front fore edge. Coffee cup ring can be seen to the rear panel. There is a 0.25" tear to the top left-hand corner of the backstrip and the lower 1.5" of Cloth of the board has split along the spine data region. Browning to the textblock edges and pages. Marks to the top textblock edges and original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. Some of the internal pages show dog earing. This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 380 pages, Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Fiction -- Vintage; Inventory No: 0103565.

Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-286 [287-288: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], title page printed in orange and black, original black cloth, front panel stamped orange and blind, spine panel stamped in orange. First edition. Five rather longish stories. "The 'Lost Generation'" is a metafictional jeu d'esprit about a mining engineer named Hemingway who sounds an awful lot like the author of that name, if he were a bit older and had gone into a different line of work in some parallel universe. He is just as adamantly anti-romantic, and, when he lets his guard down in Paris, he gets into trouble. French bookstore stamp on front paste-down. Pencil ownership signature on front free endpaper of Ladies Imperial Club. Slight spine lean, lower front corner tip worn, a very good copy. (#119367).

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Reprint. publisher's note and Apologia Pro Nomine Meo by author. Dark red cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Arlen's view of London, university types, Bohemian life in Chelsea, and society in Mayfair and Belgravia in the early part of the 20th century. This if the author's first published book written between the ages of 19 and 21. Was first published in January 1920. Softening and rubbing to the backstrip edges and corners. Rubbing to the lower book edges with fading of the backstrip and a little fading of the panels. Browning to the text block edges and lighter browning of the pages. There is some scattered foxing also present. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], VII - XI, [1] 140, [4]pages, Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Deckled Front and Lower Edges (rough cut), browned. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Short Stories; Britain/UK; 1920s; Inventory No: 0118547.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.

Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-xix [xx-xxii] [1] 2-307 [308: blank], original black cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough-trimmed, cream coated endpapers. First U.S. edition. "International Aircraft and Airways, Inc. control the world. Democracy is abolished," - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 151. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 2-1; (1987) 2-1; (1995) 2-1; and (2004) II-34. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 62. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 51. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 22. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 199. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 256-57. Bleiler (1978), p. 10. Reginald 00487. A near fine, bright copy in about good printed dust jacket with shelf wear and shallow chipping at edges, several closed tears, and several internal tape reinforcements. (#64338).

Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-181 [182: printer's imprint] [183-191: ads for Arlen's books] [192: colophon], publisher's blue boards, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Selects seven stories from two earlier collections, THESE CHARMING PEOPLE (1923) and MAY FAIR (1925). Includes "The Gentleman From America," one of Arlen's best horror stories. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 21. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-3. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 38. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 13-4. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 605-06. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-9. Bleiler (1978), p. 10. Reginald 00485. Boards rubbed, a sound, good copy, square and internally clean. (#172241).

Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-62 [63: printer's colophon] [64: blank], title page printed in red and black, decorated wrappers, sewn. First edition. Prints "The Ancient Sin," "The Smell in the Library" and "The Loquacious Lady of Lansdowne Passage." Collected in THESE CHARMING PEOPLE (1923). The second of the four titles published in this series of booklets with covers "specially designed by Edmund Dulac," providing "a representative selection of Michael Arlen's most famous short stories in a most charming and original form" (publisher's ad). Wrappers creased, chipped and torn at edges, a good copy. (#171535).

Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-181 [182: printer's imprint] [183-191: ads for Arlen's books] [192: colophon], publisher's blue boards, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Seven stories selected from two earlier Arlen collections, THESE CHARMING PEOPLE (1923) and MAY FAIR (1925). Includes "The Gentleman From America," one of Arlen's best horror stories. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 21. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-3. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 38. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 13-4. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 605-06. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-9. Bleiler (1978), p. 10. Reginald 00485. Mild foxing to page edges, else a fine copy in a good pictorial 2/6 dust jacket (illustrated by Aubrey Hammond) with wear and shallow chipping along top and bottom edges and front spine fold. (#172280).

Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-181 [182: printer's imprint] [183-191: ads for Arlen's books] [192: colophon], publisher's red boards, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Seven stories selected from two earlier Arlen collections, THESE CHARMING PEOPLE (1923) and MAY FAIR (1925). Includes "The Gentleman From America," one of Arlen's best horror stories. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 21. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-3. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 38. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 13-4. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 605-06. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-9. Bleiler (1978), p. 10. Reginald 00485. Slight spine lean, mild rubbing to boards, mostly along bottom edges, a very good copy in a very good pictorial 2/6 dust jacket (illustrated by Aubrey Hammond) with shallow chipping at spine ends. Quite a nice copy. The jacket is rare. (#169889).