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Trevor, William. THE BALLROOM OF ROMANCE AND OTHER STORIES. Bodley Head, London, 1972.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIrst edition very minor wear in a protected DJ.
Seller: Mostly Useful Fictions IOBA, Commack, NY, U.S.A.
William Trevor:. The Ballroom of Romance.. Bodley Head,, London:, 1972.
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 269pp: pages clean and unmarked: ownership name to front free endpaper. In the original binding of brown cloth-textured boards, spine titled in silver: corners and spine ends sharp. However, a 7mm strip along the bottom edge of the binding is sunned, and there's a little sunning to the top edge. The protected Stephen Russ jacket is complete, bright and clean, top edge knocked. A very nice copy. (A few more photographs of this book can be seen on my website)
Seller: Chapel Books, Westleton, SFK, United Kingdom
TREVOR WILLIAM. THE BALLROOM OF ROMANCE. LONDON BODLEY HEAD, 1972.
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY IN A SELLOPHANE PROTECTED DUSTWRAP. NEAT NAME AND DATE IN RED INK ON FEP.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
William Trevor. The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories. Bodley Head, 1972.
Price: US$159.80 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardback. First edition of the Irish author's second collection, with no inscriptions. 269 pages. Publisher's olive-brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. The Ballroom of Romance" shows Trevor's art "at its most characteristic and best. It concerns Bridie, a woman in rural Ireland, a feature of whose monotonous life is the regular dances at the ballroom, places that were once a familiar part of the country.
Seller: Trinity Books, Boyle, ROSCO, Ireland
William Trevor. The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories. Bodley Head, London, 1972.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Bodley Head, 1972. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial unclipped dust jacket; 269pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, damp stain along bottom margin of jacket foot slightly bleeding into front and rear panel though barely perceptible externally, mild bumping to corners, else a Very Good, still quite bright copy. The late Irish author's second short story collection.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
TREVOR, WILLIAM. The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories. Bodley Head 1972, 1972.
Price: US$180.35 + shipping
Description: First edition, octavo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, 269pp, VG+ (tiny stain spots to front board, owner's name & address & date to fep) in d/w, VG (price-clipped, slight creasing to front, 1cm closed tear to front upper edge, light tanning to interior)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
TREVOR WILLIAM. The Ballroom of Romance. Bodley Head, London, 1972.
Price: US$186.07 + shipping
Description: PUBLISHER'S UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY in UNCORRECTED PROOF D/W. A softcover. A fine copy in like D/W with slight creasing at the head of the spine due to the D/W being larger than the proof itself. Uncommon in proof state (especially in this lovely condition). Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$199.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Impression of the Irish author's second collection, including "A Choice of Butchers" and "O Fat White Woman." 8vo: 269,[1]pp. Publisher's olive-brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. An excellent example (apparently unread) in a virtually pristine jacket. William Trevor was one of the most acclaimed writers in English of the twentieth century, above all in the short story form (he published eleven volumes). "The Ballroom of Romance" shows Trevor's art "at its most characteristic and best. It concerns Bridie, a woman in rural Ireland, a feature of whose monotonous life is the regular dances at the ballroom, places that were once a familiar part of the country. The night in question will be the last, as Bridie realises in a moment of epiphany that the man she has been waiting for can never be hers. . . . Resignation is seen through the eyes of someone ordinary and left behind by life, rendered in simple yet elegant language; the story also contains comic cameos, and conversations in realistic language. These qualities are hallmarks of Trevor's art." (Literary Encycyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Trevor, William. THE BALLROOM OF ROMANCE. The Bodley Head, London, 1972.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Hardcover. 8'' x 5 1/2''. 269pp. Taped to outside of book is Viking Press notice as this being ''unrevised proofs''. Bodley head has been inked out on title page.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Trevor, William. The Ballroom of Romance and other stories. Bodley Head, 1972.
Price: US$237.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown cloth. Slight offsetting to spine, else nice copy in like dustwrapper.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
William Trevor. The Ballroom of Romance. The Bodley Head Ltd 1972-05-04, 1972.
Price: US$237.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is in good used condition, however the previous owner has places his name in small letters inside the cover.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
WILLIAM TREVOR.. The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories.. The Bodley Head, London, 1972.
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 269pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. Boards lightly discoloured at edges, and with some off-setting from the dust wrapper design to the upper board and the backstrip. A very good copy in non-price-clipped double-spread pictorial dust wrapper, with two strips of light fading to the front panel, a little chafing to one or two extremities and a single short internally repaired tear to the head of the spine panel. Twelve stories, Trevor's second collection of short fiction.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 269 pp. 8vo, publisher's boards; front panel, rear panel and spine of the dust jacket present (in two pieces). First edition. Spine a little sunned; tight and sound. This was Alison Lurie's copy, inscribed by the author, "For Alison with love June 1972 Wm." The front panel of the dust jacket has been trimmed and was glued to the half-title page (now detached, leaving brown adhesive stains. The same was done with the rear jacket panel and backstrip, with the same result (the brown stains have bled through and are slightly visible on the final page of text).
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
TREVOR, William. The Ballroom of Romance. Bodley Head, 1972, 1972.
Price: US$417.06 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustjacket, spine not faded, not price-clipped, an exceptionally nice copy of the author's second collection of short stories.
Seller: Shellhouse Books, Quinton, Northants, United Kingdom
William Trevor. The Ballroom Of Romance (Signed). The Bodley Head, 1972.
Price: US$609.55 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed by Author(s) A fine book in a near fine DW which has two mended tears at top and bottom of spine but is otherwise fine. Tt is a first impression/first edition of Sir Williams most celebrated book of Short Stories the title story was filmed for Television. The book was signed in the early 1990s at the Cheltenham Lit Fest,without inscription. Signed simply, William Trevor
Seller: The Books of Eli, Birmingham, United Kingdom