John Mortimer. Charade. Bodley Head, 1947.
Price: US$9.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1947. 188 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Mortimer, John.. Charade.. Bodley Head, London, 1947.
Price: US$14.81 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Slightly bowed. Cloth lightly worn and soiled. Previous owner's details on fep, ffep and rfep.
Seller: Primrose Hill Books BA, London, United Kingdom
MORTIMER, JOHN. CHARADE. LONDON VIKING PUB 1947., 1947.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: F/NF. THIS IS THE FIRST VIKING EDITION OF 1986 OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK THAT WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THE BODLEY HEAD IN 1947 D.J. HAS A SLIGHT CRUSH AT THE BOTTOM REAR FORE-EDGE CORNER WITH A TINY ABRASION AT THE TOP REAR FORE-EDGE CORNER. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, TIGHT, COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK, OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE, AND NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Mortimer, John. Charade. The Bodley Head, London, 1947.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Very Good copy in yellow cloth of the first printing of the author's first book, in a Fair dust jacket chipped at the head of the spine, and lacking the lower half of the spine panel.
Seller: Row By Row Bookshop, Sugar Grove, NC, U.S.A.
JOHN MORTIMER. Charade. A novel.. The Bodley Head, London, 1947.
Price: US$84.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition (first printing) of the author's first book. 8vo. 188pp. Yellow cloth lettered in blue at the spine. Top edge very lightly soiled and printed on very slightly substandard post-wartime economy paperstock. A very good copy in the striking double-spread pictorial dust wrapper designed by James Holland, price-clipped and chipped with just a little loss at the spine ends and several corner tips, and with a small area of chafing to one natural fold. Small 'Book Society Recommendation' inkstamp to the base of the front flap.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom