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William Golding etc. Sometime, Never: Three Tales of Imagination. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1956.
Price: US$35.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1956. First Edition. 224 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth covered boards. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Boards are slightly bowed. Book has slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$47.64 + shipping
Description: 12mo (19x12.5cm), hardback, 224pp. Good condition in good dustwrapper (price clipped, sunned spine, foxed, several tea/coffee stains to upper rear with smaller spotting elsewhere, 1cm faint line above the word 'by' in the author panel at front cover- now in protective cover and bright and neat for all its faults). Light foxing to page edges, bookseller's stamp at free front endpaper. Interior very good. No ownership markings or names. Pictures available on request. Contains: Envoy Extraordinary (Golding), Consider Her Ways (Wyndham), and Boy In Darkness (Peake).
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$57.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dust jacket corners bumped and worn slightly.
Seller: Halper's Books, Tel Aviv, Israel
Price: US$108.87 + shipping
Description: 183 x 122mm, dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pp.224. Ex R.A.F library copy, with circular stamp on front pastedown & printed form tipped in to rear free endpaper (no other marks). Spine lettering dull. Good clean copy in colour facsmile dustwrapper. Dustwrapper design by [Werner] Stein. Scarce. Golding's 'Envoy Extraordinary', Wyndham's 'Consider Her Ways' and Peake's 'Boy in Darkness' (a surreal episode which takes Titus beyond the confines of Gormenghast) were all specially commissioned for this book. I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome.
Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Golding, William, Wyndham, John & Peake, Mervyn. Sometime, Never. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956.
Price: US$126.81 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A formidable literary trinity - containing three 'tales of the imagination.' and according to the blurb 'specially written for this book not previously in print.' Titles: Envoy Extraordinary (Golding), Consider Her Ways (Wyndham) and The Boy in Darkness (Peake). Condition (dust jacket): intact, some edge wear plus tanning - visible on the rear cover (image) and internally. Condition (book block): deep green cloth boards with elegant gilt (gold) titles along the spine. In an overall very sound state. Tight binding. Very mild tanning in places - most visible on preliminary and final pages. pp. 224/16mo. Please note that, depending on destination, we may request an additional payment to cover any extra shipping/postage charges. Proceeds to Amnesty International. Abe2405.
Seller: Amnesty Bookshop - Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
Price: US$153.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 12s6d. Ink ownership stamp across front free endpaper; cloth VG; jacket a bit chipped and worn at edges. An intriguing combination of authors: "Each of the three 'tales of imagination' in this book is by a master of the art, and there is enough incident and invention in each of them to surpass most full-length novels." (jacket blurb). The Peake tale Boy in Darkness features Titus, from the Gormenghast books.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 224 pages. Comprises William Golding's "Envoy Extraordinary", John Wyndham's "Consider Her Ways" and Mervyn Peake's "Boy in Darkness". All three stories are previously unpublished.Small pieces have been excised from the top corners of page 57-61 (production fault). Tail of spine slightly bumped. Very good indeed in very good indeed dustwrapper slightly marked on the rear panel.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Golding, William; Peake, Mervyn; Wyndham, John. Sometime, Never. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first impression (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956). Original green cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. A little dustiness to top edge and spotting to preliminaries with a previous owner name and date and small bookseller label to front paste-down, otherwise very good. The original and unclipped dust jacket has some spotting and staining to lower panel, which is more prominent on verso, with a little mild edge wear in places.
Seller: Fine Book Cellar Ltd. ABA ILAB PBFA, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
William Golding; John Wyndham; Mervyn Peake. Sometime, Never. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1956.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG/VG. First appearances in print of the stories Envoy extraordinary, by W. Golding. --Consider her ways, by J. Wyndham (John Beynon Harris). --Boy in darkness, by M. Peake.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology collecting three novellas: "Envoy Extraordinary" by William Golding (science fiction set in the ancient world), "Consider Her Ways" by John Wyndham (feminist science fiction set in a dystopian future), and "Boy in Darkness" by Mervyn Peake (a fantastic tale set in the world of Titus Groan). Golding's story was adapted later as a play and published as THE BRASS BUTTERFLY (1958). According the Berger (Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 196-8), Wyndham's "haunting" novella in which "the preventable is not prevented," is "the quintessence of dystopian fiction." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-78. Reginald 13447. Gekoski and Grogan B1a. Very slight spine lean, mild dust soiling to top edge of text block, else a fine copy in bright, very good plus dust jacket with light edge wear, light age-darkening to spine panel and extremities of flaps, mostly internal but with some show through on flaps, and dust soiling to rear panel. An elusive book. (#104891)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$301.47 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages; Physical description: 224 p. ; 20 cm. Contents: Envoy extraordinary, by W. Golding. --Consider her ways, by J. Wyndham (John Beynon Harris). --Boy in darkness, by M. Peake. Notes: first appearance of these stories in print. Subjects: Fiction -- Fantasy -- Science fiction -- Horror -- Supernatural. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$340.00 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages; Physical description: 224 p. ; 20 cm. Contents: Envoy extraordinary, by W. Golding. --Consider her ways, by J. Wyndham (John Beynon Harris). --Boy in darkness, by M. Peake. Notes: first appearance of these stories in print. Subjects: Fiction -- Fantasy -- Science fiction -- Horror -- Supernatural. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 224 pages. First English edition, first printing. Three author anthology including Golding, John Wyndham, and Mervyn Peake. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Impression. A Fine copy in dark green textured paper covered boards, in a Fine charcoal, yellow and red dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 224pp. Scarce in this condition. Q10282
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.