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A.L. Barker. Innocents: Variations On A Theme. The Hogarth Press, 1947.
Price: US$20.54 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1947. 204 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
BARKER, A. L. [Audrey Lilian]. The Innocents. Hogarth Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. Pp. 204. Blue-green cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, green topstain: mild spine lean, spine color slightly faded and foxed, offsetting to endpapers, a few leaves with dog-ear creases, now mellowed, else, leaves crisp and binding tight. In the two-color illustrated dust jacket with price 7s 6d intact on the front flap; slight edge-wear and spine just a tad darkened. The author's first collection of short stories, winner of the inaugural Somerset Maugham Award for British writers under 30. Dust jacket artist Duncan Grant, a member of the Bloomsbury group and friend of publishers Leonard and Virginia Woolf, created a simple but dynamic illustration of diving body. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
A. L. Barker. Innocents: Variations on a Theme. The Hogarth Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Description: Bright first edition of A. L. Barker's first short story collection in the original, unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work. Winner of the inaugural Somerset Maugham Prize in 1947. An uncommon copy.A collection of short stories concerned with some crisis of human life, innocence, youth.The first work of Audrey L. Barker, English novelist and short story writer, often writing about love, good and evil, youth, and children as both the catalyst and victims of events. Her writing is well regarded by the literary critics and other authors over time.Complete with unclipped dust wrapper designed by Duncan Grant. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with light bumping and fading to head and tail of spine and extremities. Dust wrapper unclipped and smart with some wear, lightly chipped to head and tail of spine, spine darkened. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 204pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge spotted and with a narrow strip of partial browning to the free endpapers. Contemporary former owner gift inscription inked to the front free endpaper. Very good in very good Duncan Grant-designed dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but lightly tanned at the spine panel, with just a touch of dust soiling to the rear panel and several tiny fractions of loss from the spine ends and corner tips. Eight stories, the author's first book, winner of the inaugural Somerset Maugham Prize.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom