Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Henry Green. BACK. Hogarth Press, GB, 1946.
Price: US$5.13 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: AN EX LIBRARY BOOK WITH TYPICAL LIBRARY MARKINGS. Tight sound reader. SPINE NEARLY DETACHED.
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
GREEN, Henry. Back. U.K / The Hogarth Press, 1946.
Price: US$11.54 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The novel tells the story of Charley Summers, a young Englishman who comes back from Germany, where he was detained as a POW for three years after having been wounded in combat in France (possibly in 1939 1940). / This is a 'cloth-bound' 1st edition hardback in good condition-the previous owner has written there name on the 'front end-papers'. (208 pages).
Seller: Bookenastics, Liverpool, United Kingdom
HENRY GREEN. Back. A novel.. The Hogarth Press, London, 1946.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 208pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Edges and endpapers quite spotted and with a touch of discolouration to the backstrip. Printed on slightly substandard wartime economy paperstock which is now somewhat tanned. A good if slightly dusty copy. Lacking the handsome Vanessa Bell dust wrapper. The authors seventh novel.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Green, Henry. Back. The Hogarth Press, London, 1946.
Price: US$14.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: some wear to covers and cover edges, library marks endpapers and spine, otherwise book clean and tight Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Laura Books, Georgetown, SA, Australia
Henry Green. Back A Novel. The Hogarth Press, 1946.
Price: US$15.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1946. The Hogarth Press. Hardcover. GOOD Gilt titles, grey boards. Foxing throughout that affects the text. Previous owners name. Pages browned but the text is still readable. Inside of boards are discoloured. Externally worn. Spine and boards are marked. Spine sunned. 7x5.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Green, Henry. Back. Hogarth Press, London, 1946.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good, tight edition with light tanning both early & late. Boards are lightly rubbed & soiled from handling; spine is sunned. Pages are clean throughout. A good solid reading copy.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Henry Green [Henry Vincent Yorke]. BACK [First edition]. The Hogarth Press, London, 1946.
Price: US$25.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First impression of the true first edition. ***Very good in grey cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. No bumps or tears to the cloth. Small light surface marks to front and rear boards. Edges of boards slightly faded. Slight spine lean but fragile spine tight. Internally also very good, with the original owner's name, date and place in sepia fountain ink 'Ann Giffard, Easter 1953, Hawick' to top of front free endpaper - and with an attractive contemporaneous Ex Libris black and white illustrated maritime bookplate with the printed names of Basil Greenhill & Ann Giffard to pastedown, with illustration of an old sailing ship and the printed inscription "Polacca brigantine John Blackwell built at Weare Giffard in 1862". Text pages clean. with just a couple of light fox marks to the prelims. No dustwrapper. ***188 x 128 mm. 208 pages. ***From the library of Basil Greenhill and Ann Giffard. Has an Ex Libris association maritime bookplate of two authors: Ann Giffard and Basil Greenhill, who were husband and wife. Basil Greenhill was an author of books and articles on maritime history. He was in the navy, became a lieutenant, worked at the radar research establishment at Malvern, and tested radar on bombers; he later became a diplomat and he was also the director of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. He wrote many books and numerous articles on maritime history, many researched and written with his second wife, Ann Giffard. His best-known book was his two-volume "The Merchant Schooners 1951–57". ***A fragile post-war publication from the Hogarth Press. A true first edition, first impression of Henry Green's first post-war published work in nice collectable condition, albeit without the dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
GREEN, Henry. Back. The Hogarth Press, London, 1946.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Octavo. 208pp. Very good with light sunning along the spine, touch of foxing and edgewear, lacking the original dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Henry Green. Back. The Hogarth Press, 1946.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition hardback, 1946, with no jacket. In overall good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - grey cloth boards a touch faded and rubbed. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotation or inscriptions; toning to page-ends and slight spotting to endpapers but text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.
Seller: Hall of Books, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Green, Henry. Back. Hogarth Press, London, 1946.
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown spotting on top section of front and rear free endpapers. Triangular stain affecting bottom corner of rear free endpaper, last two pages and rear pastedown - this is fairly faint but does cover about four square inches. Page edges browned. First printing. No jacket.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Green, Henry. Back. Hogarth Press, 1946.
Price: US$32.70 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
GREEN, Henry. Back. The Hogarth Press, London, 1946.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo. 208pp. Near fine with spine lightly toned and a hint of edgewear, lacking the original dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Green, Henry.. Back.. The Hogarth Press, London, 1946.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First British Edition, First Impression. Book is Fine in darker grey cloth, jacket (designed by Vanessa Bell) is only Very Good, price-clipped, with wear and small loss to points, crown of spine, middle of front flapfold. 208pp. Cheap wartime text stock. Q14941
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Green, Henry. Back: A Novel. Hogarth Press, 1946.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover 1st Printing in unclipped Vanessa Bell-designed jacket, no markings, NOT ex-lib, jacket edge-chipped with small tears & loss to spine ends & corners, pages yellowed (wartime paper), else Fine (dj in mylar protector); sm 8vo; 208pp
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Green, Henry. Back. The Hogarth Press, London, 1946.
Price: US$76.96 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Some wear to cloth including small tear to rear hinge and fraying to head and foot of spine. Cocked, spine sprung. Label remnants to rear endpaper, small marker pen mark to base closed edges, pp, however, clean and bright. Size: 12mo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Green, Henry. Back. The Hogarth Press, London, 1946.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 208 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Woolmer 522 Gray cloth. Very good copy (some toning), in very good price-clipped dust jacket by Vanessa Bell (spine panel toned)
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
GREEN, Henry. Back. The Hogarth Press, London, 1946.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Pages slightly toned as usual, slightly spine-cocked, very good in very good dust jacket a bit toned on the spine and front panel.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Henry Green. Back. The Hogarth Press, London, 1946.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First UK Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine book in a near fine unclipped Dust Jacket. The jacket spine is darkened, but has no chips or tears. Concerns a war veteran returning to England after the war, fallling in love, while struggling with his unstable mental state.
Seller: MDS BOOKS, Mississauga, ON, Canada
GREEN, Henry. Back. The Hogarth Press, London, 1946.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Pages slightly toned, else near fine in a lightly toned, near fine dustwrapper. A much nicer than usual copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
GREEN, Henry.. Back.. The Hogarth Press, London, 1946.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 208 pp. 12mo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Slight wrinkle to front board; corners slightly bumped; but a fresh copy in a beautiful, unchipped jacket with the slightest of browning to the spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Green, Henry. Back. The Hogarth Press, 1946.
Price: US$352.74 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: The Hogarth Press (1946). 8vo., slate grey cloth boards, decorated with gilt lettering to the spine, with the original dust jacket; pp. 208; A near fine copy. The jacket hasn't been price clipped displaying the correct price of 8s 6d. net. There is a triffling amount of wear to the top of the spine, otherwise the Venessa Bell designed jacket has very little handling wear at all. The book has a small previous booksellers sticker to the lower inside board. The first UK edition of the author's seventh novel about a man's experiences in dealing with change after being released from prison. According to Woolmer 5000 copies were printed. An excellent copy. [Woolmer 522]
Seller: The Plantagenet King ABA / ILAB, Birchington, KENT, United Kingdom