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Sansom, William. A Contest of Ladies. London Hogarth Press 1956., 1956.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A few light black spots on covers. Very good in d.j. Some brown staining on d.j. 1st edition. Binding is Boards.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
William Sansom. A Contest Of Ladies. The Hogarth Press, London, 1956.
Price: US$37.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 256pp. Collection of tales about a middle-aged bachelor and six Beauty Queens. First edition. Orange cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. No inscriptions. Tightly bound. Tiny crease to cloth at tip of top of spine. Few light spots to top page edge and lower page edges. Appears hardly read. Unclipped blue illustrated dust jacket designed by Charles Mozley. Shelf wear to top of spine and top corners. Age toning to inside dust jacket. All now protected in clear archival wraps.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
William Sansom. A Contest of Ladies. The Hogarth Press, 1956.
Price: US$37.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First U.K. Edition. Very good in like jacket. Minor scuffs along fore edge with small dampstain on head of block and very minor edgewear to orange cloth. Ownership signature of author John Metcalf on FFEP. JAckets suffers from very minor sunning to spine and very minor edgewear along bottom edges. Else, a tight and clean copy.
Seller: Biblioasis, Windsor, ON, Canada
WILLIAM SANSOM. A CONTEST OF LADIES. THE HOGARTH PRESS, LONDON, 1956.
Price: US$38.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: THE DUST JACKET IS LIGHTLY RUBBED. THE CORNERS AND EDGES ARE BUMPED. THE SPINE IS SCUFFED AT BOTH ENDS. THE PRICE IS UNCLIPPED. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.
Seller: Happyfish Books, Meopham, KENT, United Kingdom
SANSOM, William.. A Contest of Ladies.. London: Hogarth Press, 1956.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 255 pp. Very near fine dust jacket.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Sansom, William.. A Contest of Ladies.. London; Hogarth Press, 1956., 1956.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 255, [1]. Publishers' bright tangerine cloth with gilt titles to spine, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Charles Mozley. Corners and spine tips very slightly bruised and textblock edge lightly foxed, otherwise a clean bright copy, with no annotation or inscriptions, Jacket a little nicked & creased to edge with very minor loss at spine tips. A Very Good copy in like jacket. 15 short stories including the title tale, featuring "a middle-aged bachelor who finds himself saddled with six Beauty Queens" (from jacket front flap). Obviously a fate worse than death.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Sansom, William. A CONTEST OF LADIES. London: The Hogarth Press, 1956., 1956.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Fine in a very nearly fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket art by Charles Mozley Collection of stories by the English short story writer, novelist, travel writer, and author of children's books. Contains four stories of supernatural interest: "A Country Walk", "A Woman Seldom Found", "The Ballroom", and "Pas De Deux".
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.