Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Paul Theroux. Girls at Play. The Bodley Head Ltd, 1969.
Price: US$17.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1969. 1st Published. 223 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket covered in plastic wrapper over burgundy cloth. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inserts and remnants to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Moderate tanning and creasing, with rubbing and marking.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Theroux, Paul. Girls at Play. The Bodley Head Ltd, 1969.
Price: US$79.05 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Light toning to page ends. DJ with some edge wear, small tears, light toning and creasing
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
THEROUX,PAUL. Girls at Play. bodley head london 1969, 1969.
Price: US$112.81 + shipping
Description: first edition 224pp VG+ (red cloth,sl.shelf wear,eps and edges v.sl.foxed,sl.cocked) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled w.spine sl.sunned,internal tape repair to head of spine,chipping to extrems.w.rubbed hinges,1x1cm surface scuff to front cover) v.tidy copy in tidy d/w
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Theroux, Paul. Girls at Play. The Bodley Head, London, 1969.
Price: US$118.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red hard cover with gilt titles on spine. Contents tight with no inscriptions. Some age discolouration of page edges and edges of dust jacket. Dust jacket is a little soiled with stain left by old sticker on front. It has not been price clipped. Nice copy.
Seller: Arty Bees Books, Wellington, New Zealand
THEROUX, Paul. Girls at Play. Bodley Head, London, 1969.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, red cloth, d.w. London: Bodley Head, (1969). First English Edition. The back panel of the dust wrapper is lightly soiled with very small chips at the bottom edge, otherwise a near fine copy of this early book.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
THEROUX PAUL. GIRLS AT PLAY. Bodley Head, London, 1969.
Price: US$352.08 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. A VG+ copy in a D/W that is VG indeed with slight discolouration to the red spine lettering, a short (almost invisible) closed tear to the top edge of the front panel and some slight wear to the top left hand corner of the back panel. A pretty good copy overall though. Signed by the Author on the title page
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Theroux, Paul. Girls At Play. The Bodley Head, London, UK, 1969.
Price: US$382.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK Edition, First Printing. This true first edition, first printing (first impression). The original dust jacket price of [25s £1.25 Net] is intact with no additional printings on the copyright page meeting the first edition criteria for this publisher. There is a slant to the spine some faint specks to page edges. The Dust jacket is a little soiled at the edges with fade to the spine and wear to the extremities.There is also a neat previous owners name to the front edge page. SIGNED by Paul Theroux to the title page.
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland
Theroux, Paul. Girls At Play. The Bodley Head ( 1969 ), London, 1969.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, 224 pages, yellow wrappers Uncorrected Proof Copy. ARC. With a tipped-in return notice from Theroux's Literary Agent, Diana Crawfurd. His third novel. " The sardonic humour explodes into ferocious violence in a denoument reminiscent of Evelyn Waugh's classic, "Black Mischief". [ Ahearn 003b ].
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.