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Fearing, Kenneth. The Big Clock. The Bodley Head, London, 1947.
Price: US$10.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First UK edition. Previously published byHarcourt, Brace and Company in the U.S.A. in 1946. One inch patch of discolouration to bottom right hand corner of front panel of boards. Thin strips of fading at the top and bottom of the spine. bright. Page edges have some brown spotting with light spotting to the endpapers and title pages and in a few places through the book. There is a musty smell to the pages which are otherwise clean, unmarked and unworn. First printing. No jacket.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
FEARING, KENNETH.. The Big Clock.. Australia, The Bodley Head, (1947) ., 1947.
Price: US$15.37 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition; 8vo; pp. 200; original cloth, title lettered in black on spine, chipped and rubbed dustjacket, piece missing from top right corner, a good copy.
Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
Fearing, Kenneth. The Big Clock. Bodley Head & Australasian Pub Co, Australia, 1947.
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 200 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Bodley Head & Australasian Pub Co, Australia, 1947. First Edition. This is the first Australian edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in fair dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket has moderate creasing. Edges of dust jacket have moderate wear and moderate chips and/or tears. The dust jacket has been price-clipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Edges of pages are reasonably browned. Pages are lightly tanned. Short gift inscription in ink. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; Inventory No: 22120042.
Seller: Manyhills Books, Traralgon, VIC, Australia
Fearing (Kenneth). The Big Clock.. The Bodley Head, 1947.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Description: FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, a couple of very light handling marks, pp. 188, foolscap 8vo, original pink cloth, backstrip and upper board lettered in blue, a touch of fading at backstrip ends, a little rubbed to extremities, the flyleaf gently browned, dustjacket price-clipped, rubbed and chipped at backstrip panel ends, good.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
FEARING, Kenneth. The Big Clock. The Bodley Head, London, 1947.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First English edition. Very near fine in very good or better dust jacket with very slight loss at spine ends and a few small tears. Suspense novel made into a feature film directed by John Farrow in 1948 with a Jonathan Latimer script, and featuring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, and Maureen O'Sullivan, and again in 1987 as *No Way Out* directed by Roger Donaldson with Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Fearing, Kenneth.. The Big Clock.. London; The Bodley Head, 1947., 1947.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Description: FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Small octavo, pp. 188. Bound in red publisher's boards with navy blue titles to board and spine. With the original unclipped illustrated dust-jacket. Minor loss and creasing to spine-tips. Near Fine book in a Very Good dust-jacket. Gripping novel praised for its innovative structure, adapted in 1948 into the classic film noir of the same name starring Ray Milland and Charles Laughton.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Fearing (Kenneth). The Big Clock.. The Bodley Head,, London,, 1947.
Price: US$141.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original red cloth, Dust-jacket. Ink name to front free endpaper; cloth near fine; dust-jacket slightly rubbed with some chipping to spine ends, some creasing, overall VG. The first British edition of the American author's most famous novel, originally appearing in abridged form in The American Magazine (October 1946). The work was adapted into film three times, and in 2006 was reprinted 'New York Review Books Classics' series.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Australian edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper but for shallow chips at the foot of the thin spine. Suspense novel made into a feature film directed by John Farrow in 1948 with a Jonathan Latimer script, and featuring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, and Maureen O'Sullivan, and again in 1987 as *No Way Out* directed by Roger Donaldson with Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman. The Australian edition is uncommon.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.