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Jocelyn Brooke. The Image of a Drawn Sword. Bodley Head, 1950.
Price: US$9.61 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1950. First Published. 183 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Visible creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Pages remain intact. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Some tanning to spine and edges. White marks to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Jocelyn Brooke. The Image of a Drawn Sword. Bodley Head, 1950.
Price: US$19.70 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1950. First Edition. 183 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Brooke, Jocelyn. The Image of a Drawn Sword. Bodley Head, London, United Kingdom, 1950.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good reading copy. Some dust and foxing, and title on spine has faded, but not much wear. Hinge a little weak.
Seller: Stuart W. Wells III, Norwalk, CT, U.S.A.
Brooke, Jocelyn. The Image of a Drawn Sword. The Bodley Head, 1950.
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. 8vo, pictorial dust jacket over red cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Upper edge red. 183pp. Dust jacket price clipped, some edge wear, repair and loss of jacket to upper spine. Inner book very good and clean, slight sunning on upper spine. 'The idea is magnificent and disturbing, the writing superb.'
Seller: Bird's Books, Edinburgh, SCOTL, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 183pp. orig. cloth, ODNB comments 'Brooke's only true novel is a haunting account of a post-war veteran whose sense of futility is dissolved when he is drawn into a world where fantasy, paranoia, and reality merge with fatal consequences'.
Seller: R.G. Watkins Books and Prints, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
BROOKE, Jocelyn.. THE IMAGE OF A DRAWN SWORD.. The Bodley Head,, London,, 1950.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. pp 183. Fine in VG+ dust jacket with short closed tear but no loss. Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.
Seller: Nicola Wagner, aptos, CA, U.S.A.
BROOKE, JOCELYN. The Image of the Drawn Sword. The Bodley Head, London, 1950.
Price: US$75.41 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Gilt lettered red cloth in pictorial price clipped dust jacket. Red top stain. A book with supernatural elements. Some small chipping to dj at extremties but still a nice copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
BROOKE Jocelyn. The Image of a Drawn Sword. The Bodley Head, London2000, 1950.
Price: US$83.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 183pp. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine in bright but fragile unclipped dustwrapper with several small closed tears to edges and a small stain to centre of spine. Lightly foxed but a good tight copy.
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
BROOKE, JOCELYN.. THE IMAGE OF A DRAWN SWORD.. The Bodley Head., London, 1950.
Price: US$225.45 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 5.25 x 7.5 inches. 183 pp. Bound in original cloth gilt, in the scarce dust wrapper designed by P. Vinten, with only very small chips not affecting the design or lettering. Slight wear to extremities but otherwise a very good copy. Inscribed by the author to Jonathan Curling, 1950 on first free endpaper. Brooke's strange and beautifully written tale with East Kent as the backdrop. Inscribed to Jonathan Curling, the author's friend, writer and to whom Jocelyn's 'The Military Orchid' was dedicated. Scarce. KENT LITERATURE KENT - EAST KENT LIT. FICTION MILITARY 20TH CENTURY FIRST EDITION DUST WRAPPER SIGNED KENT
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom