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Williams, Raymond. BORDER COUNTRY - A Novel. Chatto & Windus Limited, 1960.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd edition 1960, One month after the 1st edition. Small sticker from Random Books (Pty) Ltd. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and minor marks. The text within the book is clear and bright. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Raymond Williams. Border Country, a novel. Chatto and Windus, 1960.
Price: US$27.11 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright, some spotting to endpapers, no inscriptions, 351pp. Good unclipped DJ with some edge wear and creasing, spine toned
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Price: US$31.84 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Published by Chatto and Windus in 1960, here is the first hardback printing of Raymond Williams' BORDER COUNTRY. 351 pages, red cloth binding, gilt lettering, the book is in fair (below average) condition with some general creasing to the spine particularly at the top plus a few scuffs to the cloth covers and a slight spine slant. Internally the book is decent with some spotting to the top page edges and the name of a previous owner (the revered Oxford scholar and Hertford College fellow Anthony Cockshut) written in pencil to the front free end paper. Anthony has also made a few pencil notes in the book. The dust jacket is fair nicely in tact but with a fair amount of chipping and tearing mainly to the edges, corners and spine. A decent offering.
Seller: The Spoken Word, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Raymond Williams. Border Country. Chatto and Windus, UK, 1960.
Price: US$44.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition 1960. The first book in the Border series. Book is very good and bright. Light marking/shading to cloth. Small dent to spine. The wrapper is very good and very bright. Small loss to spine tip. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16902
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
WILLIAMS, Raymond. Border Country. Chatto & Windus, 1960.
Price: US$57.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ~Red cloth gilt, with slight dust-marking to top-edges. Very slight forward lean. No ownership marks. Colour pictorial dustwrapper unfaded, unclipped, and protected in removable clear plastic sleeve. ~Robust packaging. Size: 351pp. Dustwrapper
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
WILLIAMS, Raymond.. BORDER COUNTRY.. Chatto & Windus,, London,, 1960.
Price: US$76.44 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 351. Author's first novel, set in Wales. Loosely inserted 3 newspaper obituaries for Williams from January 1988. VG+ in close to very good slightly used d/w nicked at head of spine and slight surface wear. Decent copy.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Williams, Raymond. Border Country - basis for the film. Chatto and Windus 1960, 1960.
Price: US$159.26 + shipping
Description: A first printing of the author's first novel published by Chatto and Windus in 1960. A very good book - some bumping to the spine tips. Spotting is evident to the text block and prelims. In a very good unclipped wrapper with some chipping to the spine tips and edges. Small, closed tears are evident to the rear and front covers. Border Country tells the tale of Matthew Price, a university lecturer in economic history, who returns from London to visit his sick father in the fictional village of Glynmawr in the Black Mountains, a rural area but closely connected to the nearby coal mining valleys of the South Wales coalfield. His father had been a railway signalman, and the story includes lengthy flashbacks to the 1920s and 1930s, including the General Strike and its impact on a small group of railway workers living in a community made up mostly of farmers. It also describes Matthew Price's decision to leave his own community, studying at Cambridge before becoming a lecturer in London.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
WILLIAMS, Raymond. Border Country. Chatto & Windus, London, 1960.
Price: US$191.11 + shipping
Description: Ex college library with decorative bookplate on ffep. Not price clipped in loose protective plastic wrapper. In CJ Galsworthy jacket design. Two small stamps and stamps on binding. Uncommon.
Seller: valley books, Holton, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Williams, Raymond. Border Country - basis for the film. Chatto and Windus 1960, 1960.
Price: US$222.96 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A first printing of the author's first novel published by Chatto and Windus in 1960. A near fine book with previous owners inscription on the front free end paper which reads 'D. Wills. Christmas 1960". Some bumping to the spine tips. Spotting is evident to the text block and prelims. In a very good unclipped wrapper with some chipping to the spine tips and edges. Small, closed tears are evident to the rear and front covers. Border Country tells the tale of Matthew Price, a university lecturer in economic history, who returns from London to visit his sick father in the fictional village of Glynmawr in the Black Mountains, a rural area but closely connected to the nearby coal mining valleys of the South Wales coalfield. His father had been a railway signalman, and the story includes lengthy flashbacks to the 1920s and 1930s, including the General Strike and its impact on a small group of railway workers living in a community made up mostly of farmers. It also describes Matthew Price's decision to leave his own community, studying at Cambridge before becoming a lecturer in London.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
WILLIAMS, Raymond. Border Country. Chatto & Windus, London, 1960.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first issue binding. Large but faint dampstain on front board and first leaf, very good in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with a couple of internal repairs. Author's first book, a well-regarded novel of the Welsh borderlands.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.