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Buchan, John. The Gap in the Curtain. Hodder & Stoughton, 1932.
Price: US$5.63 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Soiling and wear to the green covers; broken hinges; pages yellowed; a cigarette smell else a reading copy of an old book. No jacket. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 183980.
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Buchan, John. The Gap In The Curtain. Hodder & Stoughton, 1932.
Price: US$11.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards are edgeworn and marked.Pencil inscriptions.Minor markings.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Buchan, John:. Gap in the Curtain, The. London Hodder & Stoughton, 1932.
Price: US$17.81 + shipping
Description: First edition in very good condition, no dustjacket. Top edges dusty, slight lean. (Book ref 3448)
Seller: Tweedside Books, PBFA, MELROSE, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. The Gap In The Curtain. Hodder, 1932.
Price: US$19.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ridge to spine
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
John Buchan. The Gap in the Curtain(Hardback,1932). Hodder and Stoughton, 1932.
Price: US$19.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan, 1932, Published by Hodder and Stoughton, Printed in Great Britain by Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd, Hardback, has fading and some wear to covers and spine, All pages appear present, Pages are yellowing, On front cover fly-leaf page there is a previous owners name written in fading fountain pen ink: A.J.Marr,
Seller: Codex Books, York, United Kingdom
BUCHAN, JOHN. THE GAP IN THE CURTAIN. LONDON: HODDER AND STOUGHTON, 1932.
Price: US$26.71 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, first edition, pp,315, gilt titled green cloth, publisher's advertisements to rear, 1932 dedication on the leading paste-down endpaper, some mild foxing.
Seller: Haddington Rare Books, North Berwick, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. The Gap in the Curtain. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1932.
Price: US$39.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: green cloth, gilt lettering, shelf wear, owners inscription, binding good. D5 4
Seller: COVENANT HERITAGE LIBRIS, Saint John, NB, Canada
Buchan, John.. THE GAP IN THE CURTAIN.. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1932., 1932.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover first edition - First edition. A pyschological thriller with a supernatural element - a disparate group of people attempt to see into the future. Features Sir Edward Leithen. Good overall in dark green cloth with gilt lettering - a lending library sticker on the front endpaper, some bumping and wear to the corners and ends of the spine, toning to the pages, but overall still sturdy and a good reading copy,
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
John Buchan. THE GAP IN THE CURTAIN. Hodder & Stoughton, GB, 1932.
Price: US$62.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dark green cloth, gilt, JB front cover. 4 page at. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. but text edges a little spotted. Dw has faded and browned spine (7/6 net) and slight text edge loss with some internal magic tape repair. ALSO up to 12 mm loss at top of spine Removing T and part of h of "The" in title.
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. The Gap in the Curtain. Hodder & Stoughton, 1932.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1932. 12 mo. 315 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering to the spine. Slight forward lean, mild foxing to the top-edge, creasing to the spine - very good. No jacket. First edition. A science fiction novel of sorts with the narrator, Sir Edward Leithen, meeting the brilliant physicist and mathematician Moe as he presents a way for people to see future events.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
Buchan, John. THE GAP IN THE CURTAIN. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1932.
Price: US$120.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition 19.5 cm x 13 cm 315 + blank pages + (4) pages of adverts. Contents clean and tight with no inscriptions.Publishers green cloth gilt J B initial to upper board. Binding clean and tight with no splits or marks slight bumping to corners. DJ [present with some chipping to head of spine closed tear to1/3rd front spine edge and a closed tear to part front flap and spine . Old tape offset mark to verso, tape no longer present.Detailed photos can be sent on request.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
BUCHAN John. THE GAP IN THE CURTAIN. Hodder & Stoughton,, London,, 1932.
Price: US$508.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp 315 + 4pp publishers advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth lettered gilt at the spine. Classic Buchan yarn with SF elements. Listed in Bleiler 'Time /Paranormal Abilities /Futurity' . Possibly influenced by J W Dunne's 'An Experiment in Time' which had appeared in 1927. Jacket shows a figure seemingly in a trance seated in a gap in a tall curtain with seated figures looking at him from the shadows. Very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket. Excellent condition. No inscriptions, not price-clipped. 7/6 price on spine of d/w.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
BUCHAN John. The Gap in the Curtain. , 1932.
Price: US$534.25 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. London, Hodder and Stoughton. A semi-autobiographical novel with science fiction elements, exploring the theory of serial time. An excellent copy in the scarce dust jacket, minor wear to tips of spine panel and corners.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
BUCHAN, JOHN. The Gap in the Curtain. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1932.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Gilt lettered green cloth in pictorial dust jacket. This copy signed by the author on the title page. 4 pp ads in rear.Wear to extremities, some mild foxing and darkening of the spine dj with author's name faded. Otherwise this is a near fine copy in the uncommon jacket and most rare signed as well. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada