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WHITE, Patrick.. THE AUNT'S STORY.. Routledge,, London,, 1948.
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. 8vo. pp 346. Fiction. Slightly bumped at corners, very slight shelf-wear; VG+.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
White, Patrick. The Aunt's Story. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1948.
Price: US$57.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Novel in 3 Parts: Meroe; Jardin Exotique; Holstius. Black cloth cover with gilt Lettering on spine. 346 Pages, 400g, 7 1/2" Tall. 2 small wrinkles to cloth. No inscriptions. ages in very good, clean condition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" Tall
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
White, Patrick. The Aunt's Story. Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, 1948.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: an ex-library copy with typical marks. the boards are shelf rubbed. the binding is good. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
White, Patrick. The Aunt's Story: A Novel. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1948.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing in gilt-stamped navy cloth, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, no foxing, slight softening to spine ends, from collection of art historian Douglas Cooper with his name to endpaper, else Fine copy lacking the dust wrapper; 8vo; 346pp
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
WHITE, Patrick.. The Aunt's Story.. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1948., 1948.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. Lacking the jacket. Handsomely and expertly re-bound (circa 1980) in wine-coloured quarter oasis morocco, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt, and matching papered boards and endpapers. Top edge slightly foxed, and other edges toned in a minor way, otherwise a fine copy in an elegant leather binding. Author's third novel, very scarce in any sort of collectible condition.
Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia
Patrick White. The Aunt's Story. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1948.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Very good book in a very good unclipped dust jacket. Blue cloth book has spotting to the page edges, creasing to the spine edges and eraser evidence of bookseller pencil markings to front flyleaf. Jacket has some chips to the edges and loss to the upper spine affecting the letters T and S in the book title.
Seller: MDS BOOKS, Mississauga, ON, Canada
White, Patrick. THE AUNT'S STORY. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1948.
Price: US$2007.63 + shipping
Description: Pp. [vi]+346; cr. 8vo; navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the boards slightly canted, cloth lightly flecked and a trifle wrinkled, the fore-corners faintly bruised; dust wrapper, soiled and worn, edges chipped and torn, with heavy tape repairs on reverse; text block faintly browned, the upper hinge cracking, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1948. First U.K. edition. Hubber & Smith E2. *'The Routledge edition, while more modestly presented due to wartime shortages, reproduced on the jacket de Maistre's painting which had so influenced White' [Hubber p. 23].
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia