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Plomer, William. The Case Is Altered. The Hogarth Press, 1932.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The boards are worn and marked.Ex-library book.Previous ownership inscription.Tightly bound.[R.M]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Plomer, William. The Case Is Altered. The Hogarth Press, 1932.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: the boards are worn and shelf rubbed. sunned. marked. the front end page has been torn out. tanning. internally clean and tightly bound. [P.N.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Plomer, William. The Case Is Altered. The Hogarth Press, 1932.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards are worn and marked.Stamps.Foxing.Tightly bound.Good copy.[R.N]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
William Plomer. The Case Is Altered. The Hogarth Press, 1932.
Price: US$20.16 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1932. First Edition. 341 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Moderate thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Light cracking and visible staining to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with noticeable tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Gilt lettering is noticeably darkened. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
PLOMER WILLIAM. THE CASE IS ALTERED. THE HOGARTH Press, 1932.
Price: US$28.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO60060380: 1932. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Coiffe en tête abîmée, Intérieur acceptable. 341 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
PLOMER, William.. The Case is Altered.. , 1932.
Price: US$38.65 + shipping
Description: 341pp Hogarth Press, London 1932. Spine very slightly rubbed, otherwise a very good copy without dust jacket.
Seller: Anthony C. Hall, Bookseller ABA ILAB, Isleworth, MIDDX, United Kingdom
PLOMER, William. THE CASE IS ALTERED. Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 341. Owners' bookplate on pastedown. Edges little soiled, cover scuffed and somewhat soiled, o/w VG. Woolmer 302. Issued in an edition of 1520 copies. A novel.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Plomer. William. The Case is Altered. Hogarth Press, 1932.
Price: US$43.29 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth First edition. Some friction to top of spine. Dustwrapper has some loss and tears but presentable in plastic overwrapper.
Seller: Ystwyth Books, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Plomer, William. The Case is Altered. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$45.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback A very good copy in green cloth with slightly faded but readable red lettering. In a fair dustwrapper which has edge chips and tears. Two ex libris plates of previous owners on front end-papers. Binding slightly cocked. Top edge a little dusty/foxed. A little light fore-edge foxing but clean internally. 341pp + 2pp press notices of author's precious novel. A novel "concerned with the interplay of emotions between various Londoners whom changing social conditions have brought together--"
Seller: Blacket Books, PBFA, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Plomer, William. The Case is Altered. Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, green cloth. The striking jacket drawing is by John Banting. Woolmer 302. Spine leaning, foredge faintly foxed, else near fine in a tattered dust jacket, much of the spine of which is missing
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Plomer, William. The Case Is Altered. Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 341 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Woolmer 302 Green cloth. Book Society bookplate. Very good (some cocking) in good dust jacket by John Banting with some loss at head of spine and front panels
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Plomer, William. The Case Is Altered. Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 341 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Woolmer 302 Green cloth. Book Society bookplate. Very good in worn dust jacket by John Banting with some loss at head of front panel and top and bottom of spine panel
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Plomer, William. The Case Is Altered. Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 341 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Woolmer 302 Green cloth. Spine dull. Good in very good dust jacket by John Banting with some loss at top and bottom margin of back panel
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
PLOMER, William.. The Case is Altered.. , 1932.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Description: 341pp Hogarth Press 1932. 1st edition. Very good copy with Book Society plate, DW chipped at head, tail & corners, else VG.
Seller: Anthony C. Hall, Bookseller ABA ILAB, Isleworth, MIDDX, United Kingdom
PLOMER, William. THE CASE IS ALTERED. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1932.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Description: First Edition in the unclipped dust-jacket (priced 7/6 net) designed by English Surrealist John Banting. Publisher's emerald green cloth, slightly rubbed, with just the remnants of the yellow title lettering on the spine. Unclipped dust-jacket is chipped in three places, including top of spine, but other than that pretty clean and bright. An about VG copy in similar jacket.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
PLOMER, William. The Case is Altered. Hogarth Press (1932), 1932.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. Novel set in London, printed by Virginia and Leonard Woolf at the Hogarth Press. A very good copy, just a bit of foxing on endpapers, very good jacket (designed by John Banting) with some edgewear and two smallish chips. office.
Seller: Elysium Books, Norwich, VT, U.S.A.
PLOMER, William (1903-1973). The Case is Altered. London: The Hogarth Press, 1932, 1932.
Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Description: [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.341; [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the grey dust-jacket illustrated by John Banting, priced at 7/6. Spotting to edges and sporadically to the textblock. Jacket spine toned, with some chips to edges. Very good. A novel set in contemporary London. Plomer was later known as Ian Fleming's trusted Editor-in-chief, the dedicatee of the novel 'Goldfinger', and the very first reader of the James Bond debut 'Casino Royale'.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Plomer, William. The Case is Altered. Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Green cloth, leaning, light foxing in very good dust jacket. Woolmer 302.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
PLOMER, William.. The Case is Altered.. The Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 341 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Foxing to fore- and top-edges; gold a little dimmed on spine; but a very good copy in a bright jacket with a few tiny chips to the top of the spine (not affecting any lettering).
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
PLOMER, WILLIAM. The Case Is Altered. The Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original green boards, lettered in gilt to the spine. 8vo - 341 pp. The spine of the book is dusty. The book is solid, the corners true and the text block is clean. The complete dust jacket, designed by John Banting, shows the 7/6 price to the flap. The panels are bright but the spine is toned. The spine ends show minor wear. Woolmer, "The Hogarth Press," page 106, #302. Very Good / Very Good.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.