school private de philip toynbee (5 résultats)

hardcover. Etat : Good. 1941 Putnam first editionon red cloth.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1941 1st edition clothbound hardback in very good condition. No dust wrapper, very minor wear on top and base of spine and corners of boards, owner's inscription dated Nov 19th 1941. 288pp, all very bright, tight and clean.

8vo. First edition. Original brick red cloth, gilt. Jacket design by Robin Darwin. Neat ink ownership near the top edge of the front pastedown under the jacket flap. Contents clean. Clipped d/w is slightly tanned and faded on the spine, a little rubbed and nicked at the extremities, and with a tape repair to the head of the spine. Near fine in very good + d/w. A 'novel of life in a Preparatory Boarding School which takes the reader into the inner thoughts and activities of all the inmates [.] Against the typical background of paper-chases, football games, and fishing expeditions on the headmaster's birthday, glides the graceful and ambiguous figure of Sparrow the adolescent who has been admitted in mid-term. With his sophistication and assurance, Sparrow brushes aside all school tradition; and masters and boys are equally left in dazzled helplessness. The consequences provide an episode that ranks high in the literature of schoolboy experience.' Philip Toynbee (1916-1981) was educated at Rugby until, like his friend Esmond Romilly at Wellington, he ran away. Uncommon especially in the jacket.

Hard Cover. Etat de la jaquette : Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: Putnam 1941). First UK Edition. Publisher's dark salmon-pink boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Spine tips pushed. Mild foxing to the text-block edges which has just crept into the interior in places. No inscriptions. Overall a VG++ copy. The VG++ dustwrapper is complete with a slightly toned spine and the slightest of wear/ miniscule loss to the head and tail of the spine. A much nicer copy than normally seen of this rare novel of life in a Preparatory Boarding School with its usual unpremeditated, unfairness of the masters to the boys, the boys' deliberate persecution of each other, and the habitual savagery of the boys to the masters cable of turning them into neurasthenics and drunkards. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINTING. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET WITH PUBLISHERS PRICE OF 8s.6d NET INTACT, HALF TITLE PRESENT, DUST JACKET DESIGN BY ROBIN DARWIN. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 6 INCHES WITH 288 PAGES. SOME WEAR & RUBBING TO JACKET EDGES WITH HEAVY BROWNING TO SPINE & REAR OF JACKET [SEE IMAGE] SOME OLD REPAIRS & CLOSED TEARS TO JACKET, PRIVATE BOOKPLATE TO INNER FRONT BOARD, LACKING FRONT BLANK ENDPAPER, SMALL TEAR TO BOTTOM OF HALF TITLE, OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING TO PAGES & PAGE FORE-EDGES. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY. JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING THAT MAY SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.