Peter owen uk (125 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : fine. near fine. Stated first edition. NOT an ex library book. 831 pages. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. VERY GOOD hardcover in VERY GOOD dust jacket, no marks in text, tight square spine; minor notation on front free endpaper; 284 pp. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Clean tight fresh NEW copy . Clean tight strong boards + text. Jacket slightly shelf rubbed.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. Good condition soft cover, some wear to cover and spine, internally clean and tidy and in a good readable condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Good condition hard cover, with good condition jacket, some wear to cover and spine, internally clean and tidy and in a good readable condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 172pp. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. 8vo. Volume very slightly skewed else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In a laminated, illustrated dust wrapper, not price clipped, very slightly bumped on extreme edges with a tiny nick at the head of a slightly sunned spine.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 384pp. White cloth-covered boards; silver titles on spine; illustrated endpapers. 8vo. Slightly rubbed spine ends, slightly discoloured spine ends. Text block edges just starting to fox. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun-faded, has very light shelf wear, not price clipped.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Good condition. Hard cover. Couple of tiny marks on edges. Pages good - clean and bright. Signature portion of letter from author on front flyleaf. Inscription on front flyleaf. No jacket. Couple of small marks on cover. Slight bumping to corners and spine ends. 176 pages. …

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. A memoir by Garcia Lorca's brother, translated from Spanish by Christopher Maurer, 258 pages, b & w illus.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. Reprint. Small" Strand Store" Sticker tag on cover paste down endpaper NEW absolute. 124 pages. "Translated from the Japanese and with Introduction by Leon Picon" Reprint of the Charles Tuttle Edition 1965.

Hardcover. Etat : near fine. Etat de la jaquette : very good. Stated first edition. NOT an ex library book. 931 pages. Dust jacket has 1/2" tear top of spine, no chips. Price is not clipped.

Trade Paperback. Etat : Good. A brilliant satire of Russian life, 192 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. 226pp. Black cloth-covered boards, silver titles on spine. Pink endpapers. 8vo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket, not price clipped, has some shelf wear, light chipping to edges. Helen Hayes (1900-1993), fondly remembered as the first lady of American Theatre, looks back on her long career as a star of stage and screen. …

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Good condition, jacket slightly worn.

hardback in dustjacket, both as new, 148pp. An elderly American woman begins an agonizing search for the truth about her daughter, a famous painter who has died.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Second impression. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Three corners of boards bumped. No marks, and contents in nice shape. Jacket is a bit rubbed and soiled. Chips at corners.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Includes several pages of b/w and colour illustrations. 224pp.

Etat : Very good. - Octavo, cloth in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The tail of the spine is slightly faded. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped with some soiling & light foxing. The head of the jacket spine is torn & the top edge of its rear panel is creased with a small piece out. Half-title, title & 182 pages. Very good in a good dust wrapper. First English edition.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good -. First British Commomwealth Edition. Very nice copy. (see picture) Book has mild rubbing on the pages edges. Dustjacket is in Brodart abd the cover has some rubbing on the front and back cover.205 pages including index.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, First impression UK copy. Unclipped dust jacket is in near-fine condition. Handsome copy for collectors of this distinguished author. (Publication discrepancy, 2004-2005, is due to when the edition was finalized by the publisher. Same with the lack of a numberline. This is not unusual for Peter Owens.) "Paul Bowles, best known for his classic 1949 novel, The Sheltering Sky, is one of the most compelling yet elusive figures of twentieth-century American counterculture. In this definitive biography, Virginia Spencer Carr has captured Bowles in his many guises: gifted composer, expatriate novelist, and gay icon, to name only a few. . . ." (Goodreads).…

Softcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : N/A. A modern reprint of the original 1960s publication. 142pp, with black and white drawings in text. Laminated stiff card covers. 8vo. Card covers show a little shelf wear else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. John, the 13th Duke of Bedford, wittily lampoons the English upper classes and their ways, and offers a guide to following the social etiquette of the elite. Bentley, Nicolas (illustrateur).…

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. uk1st.edition.1st.printing.fine softwraps original.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. uk1st.edition.1st.printing thus-simultaneous with the hardback the softwraps.a clean tight bright vg copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. uk1st.edition.1st.printing/vg hardback in vg dustwrapper.

hardback in protected dustjacket, ex-libris, small part on edge of dustjacket faded colour, missing fep and title page[ thus removing all signs of library stamps] 292pp. ISBN: 0720605962. Young's no 1703*. Traces Whit Miller's course from the bewildering break-up of a marriage he never understood, through a series of homosexual relationships . The story is a masterly portrayal of human relationships, of loneliness, of sexual obsession. …

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Dustjacket Near Fine. First Edition. 154 pages. B&W illustrations. Ink name stamp to flyleaf o/w a fine, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. h/b 197 pages, condition is very good. a scuff mark to the spine of the DJ. Just after the Second World War the author, as a Merchant Navy cadet, sailed round the world in a tramp steamer, the SS Rembrandt. The world was then a very different place, and some of the countries he visited no longer exist politically. Moreover in those days Britain still had the world's largest mercantile fleet. Whither O Ship is a true story, which celebrates the passing of a proud and ancient British tradition. The story centres on the exploits and adventures of a young man who gains his experience of life in a truly tough and a testing environment. He is almost thrown overboard by cargo thieves before he sets sail; is shot at in Palestine; stoned by dissident youths, first in Algeria and later in Jamaica; becomes lost in the Bush in Queensland and, going absent without leave, makes an amazing cross-country trek in New Zealand; and is abandoned by his ship in the Fiji Islands. His account of his harrowing ordeal climbing the mainmast in a hurricane should be read by anyone who intends crossing oceans in a small craft.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Fastolfe died in 1459 having become one of the richest knights in England owning 94 manors and castles, earning fortunes from ransoms and booty. He was the source of Shakespeare's John Falstaff, 78pp. DJ is price-clipped and also has a couple of small nicks to its edges.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. viii, 236pp. Grey cloth-covered boards; red titles on spine. 8vo. Text block edges just starting to tan, small stains to fore-edge. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket sun faded to extremities, 2cm closed tear bottom front, has light shelf wear, not price clipped. In this hard-hitting, controversial book a former Madison Avenue American advertising executive reveals how 'lying' copy is actively encouraged by many advertisers and agencies, with first hand accounts of internal agency and clients meetings being both damning and entertaining.…

Hardcover. Etat : VG. Etat de la jaquette : VG. FIRST BRITISH COMMONWEALTH EDITION.