sailor sense humour stories de pritchett (16 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good+. No Jacket. Stated First Edition; green cloth with embossed "VS" cover emblem; gilt decorative spine sunned and dim; pages rough cut and lightly age-tanned; hinges tight, firm, uncracked; text pages square, clean, and unmarked; some rubbing and uneven coloration of back cover; previous owner's inscription in ink on first flyleaf.

Hardcover. Etat : VG+. Etat de la jaquette : VG+. First Edition. First printing. A VG+ copy in a VG+ dust jacket. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Very good copy with a little yellowing to page edges, in a very good rubbed dustwrapper with a few tiny chips at extremities. Pritchett was the master of the short story, as is shown in this second anthology of stories.

Hard. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf, 1956, first printing. 8vo., xi+369pp. 25 stories. Very good in very good dust jacket with some edgewear.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Internally bright and clean, unclipped, First Edition, tightly bound, DJ has some sunning and ruffling along the edges with nicks at corners and spine edge.

369 8vo Green cloth 1st [American] edition so stated VG+/VG dj (light tears at spine ends).

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in near fine, slightly tanned dustwrapper with some light wear to the ends of the spine and edges of the panels.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Knopf, New York, 1956, Hardcover First Edition. Book Condition: bump to bottom spine, tiny stain to top of text block (only on surface), otherwise a clean, tight near fine copy. Dust jacket condition: some wear at corners, several small closed tears and dings, mild soiling to the rear and a red smudge-lipstick?.otherwise a very good unclipped jacket.will be enclosed in a mylar protective sleeve.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. Hardcover, in a Dust Jacket which has fairly heavy edge and corner wear. Not ex. library. 370 pages. Contents clean, tight and bright. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. First Edition. Minor edge scratches on DJ and a tiny edge chip, else a fine copy in Mylar cover. Out of print.

Cloth. Etat : Near Fine. First American Edition. Near fine in a very close to near fine dj. (Very shallow chip at crest of spine on dj. Light touches of shelfsoiling to dj. A few small edge tears in dj.).

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Green cloth cover has lightly turned in spine caps otherwise pristine. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and pristine. Dust jacket has wear to the extremities but clean, bright, and in very good condition. DJ flap is price clipped. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ).; 8.6 X 6.4 X 1.4 inches.

hardcover. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition. New York. 1956. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 369 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Warren Chappell. keywords: Europe England Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION - 'For one, like myself, who has laboriously scattered his time in the writing of novels, literary criticism, and books of travel, the practice of the short story has been the delightful and compensating art and the only kind of writing that has given me great pleasure.' V. S. Pritchett's delight and pleasure are wonderfully communicated to the reader in the stories he has selected from the production of twenty-five years for inclusion in The Sailor, Sense of Humour, and Other Stories. Here his astonishingly sharp eye for telling detail, his infallible ear for dialogue, and his flashes of wild humor combine to make each story a work of art and, in the best sense of the word, an entertainment. This volume makes clear what has for some time been only partly realized: that V. S. Pritchett is one of the genuinely distinguished short-story writers of our time. The twenty-five tales and incidents in The Sailor, Sense of Humour, and Other Stories vary widely in setting and in tone. Perhaps their most rewarding quality comes from the revealing light they throw on simple - often semi-articulate - men and women caught up in the apparently ordinary problems of living from day to day, but singled out, suddenly and sometimes without apparent cause, for hours or days of internal and external drama. Nobody comes to mind who so well as Pritchett makes fascinating reading out of the flotsam and jetsam of life rather far down the social and economic scale. Rather than any sort of sociologist with naturalistic aims, however, he remains first of all an artist with words, a creator of character and situation. inventory #6189 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket.

Very good in lightly chipped dust jacket. 1st edition. Binding is Cloth.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. xii + 370 pp, stated First Edition, Preface, acknowledgements, 25 short stories. binding tight and square, pages clean, unmarked, and well-preserved, green cloth boards blind stemped fr and gilt letter-design to spine, Near Fine. Unclipped DJ, in protector, with light wear to all corners & spine tail/top. 5.9" x 8.6" boards. Size: Octavo. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition Stated. dj has minor edge wear. C2 1.