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William Trevor. The Love Department. The Bodley Head Ltd, 1966.
Price: US$20.52 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1966. First Edition. 295 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with creasing. Mild foxing to spine. Moderate tanning to spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
William Trevor. The Love Department. The Bodley Head, London, 1966.
Price: US$25.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Heavy spotting to block edge. Uniform browning to complete non-price clipped DJ. Presents well
Seller: Juniper Books, Petersfield, United Kingdom
Price: US$34.52 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (25s). Jacket has faults - namely edge/shelf wear, few tears, patchy loss (mainly to head/tail of spine and to corners), few marks, creasing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, pushing/bumping to corners, patchy browning (including to spine), minor foxing, creasing/rubbing to edges and is in only fair condition. Boards are very good (having been well protected by the jacket) with light crease to spine (book has been read), a hint of pushing to corners, the odd very small bump/rub to edges and a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Little spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages are a bit tanned. Top of pages slightly dusty with the odd very small mark/minor foxing. Small mark to lower corner of a few pages. Old mark inside front board/to front end-paper. Occasional small mark/minor foxing to page edges and bottoms. Odd small mark to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$46.11 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. First printing. Very Good or better hardback copy, but lacking the dustjacket. Overseas buyers please read shipping terms and estimated transit times prior to ordering.' 'We understand collectors needs in terms of accurate grading and proper packaging'
Seller: Malden Books, Kingston-upon-Thames, SURRE, United Kingdom
Trevor, William. The Love Department. Bodley Head, London, 1966.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In teal boards with bright gilt to spine. Pale foxing to top and front page ends. Bottom corners dinged. Text block nice, bright and clean and binding tight. Jacket is unclipped (25s net) and bright with a few short closed tears to top of rear panel and bottoms of both panels. Several small spots stains to spine, otherwise Very Good. 1st Printing
Seller: Lost Paddle Books, IOBA, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Trevor, William. The Love Department (UK HB 1st). The Bodley Head, 1966.
Price: US$57.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: UK hardback first impression. VG with light spotting to page edges, in unclipped jacket, VG+ with some yellowing and slight surface rubbing to front flap, probably from removal of re-pricing sticker.
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Trevor, William. The Love Department. Bodley Head, London, 1966.
Price: US$59.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cloth in bright dustjacket. 1966 UK edition. Former owner's name on front paste-down. Crease on one page. ; 8vo; 295 pages
Seller: Daedalus Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Trevor, William. The Love Department (UK HB 1st in DJ). Bodley Head, 1966.
Price: US$64.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: UK hardback first impression. VG with previous owner name to ffep, in VG jacket, unclipped with some spine browning and a few small nicks.
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Trevor, William. The Love Department. The Bodley Head, London, 1966.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Hardcover. Blue boards. 1st edition. 295pp. Very good in like dust jacket. No chips. Not price-clipped.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
William Trevor. The Love Department. Bodley Head, London, 1966.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing. 8vo. 295 pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Slightest shelfwear to extremities of boards. A few small nicks to jacket, price clipped
Seller: Zed Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
TREVOR, William. THE LOVE DEPARTMENT. Bodley Head, 1966.
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Very good plus condition in very good plus unclipped dust jacket. Scattered foxing to text block.
Seller: Surrey Hills Books, Cranleigh, United Kingdom
Trevor, William. The Love Department. The Bodley Head, 1966.
Price: US$77.50 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: ex library book, dust jacket iscover in plastic and taped to book cover, hard covers are turquois blue, with gold lettering on the spine, corners and spine ends are bumped and have rips and nicks, fore edge is water stained and tanned, flep has price in pencil, stains and tape marks, pages are tanned well, with finger smudges and stains throughout, 3 R's Used Books and Hannelore Headley Old & Fine Books, Inc. are committed to saving the trees one leaf at the time!
Seller: 3 R's Used Books/Hannelore Headley Old &, Port Robinson, ON, Canada
Trevor, William. The Love Department.. 1st ed The Bodley Head London, 1966.
Price: US$83.26 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Crown8vo, 295 pp. Original blue boards, gilt. Slight fore-edge foxing, top edge slightly dusty, private ex-libris plate of george hans lowe on the ffep otherwise a fine copy in a near fine price intact d/j with 15 and 7mm splits and several tiny nicks, no loss. First edition. Trevor's third book.
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
WILLIAM TREVOR. THE LOVE DEPARTMENT. THE BODLEY HEAD, LONDON, 1966.
Price: US$83.26 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH WITH THE ORIGINAL PRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE PRESENT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 295 PAGES. SOME VERY LIGHT WEAR TO JACKET, SOME OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING WHICH IS MOSTLY TO PAGE FORE-EDGES OTHERWISE AN EXCELLENT COPY WITH NO MAJOR FAULTS. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DUST JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVER THAT DOES SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$128.09 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 295pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine Stephen Russ-designed dust wrapper, lightly toned at the spine panel. The wrapper is not price-clipped although the publisher has pasted a small imprinted slip with a new price over the original price printed to the base of the front flap. Supplied together with an uncorrected proof copy of the first edition, in the publisher's yellow card wrappers which are a little spotted and faded, and with the spine curved and displaying readership creases. The author's fourth book.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Trevor, William. The Love Department. The Bodley Head, 1966.
Price: US$131.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Jacket price clipped, bookseller note laid in showing this was purchased from Kenny's in Galway in 1982. Page ridge faintly foxed. 1966 Hard Cover. 295, [1] pp. 8vo. "The Love Department by William Trevor - a darkly comic novel about a thief of the heart, by one of the world's best writers From the offices of her Love Department, Lady Dolores cures the heartaches of the lonely wives of Wimbledon with inimitable flourish and finesse. When her newest protege, the somewhat naive Edward Blakeston-Smith, is sent on a mission - to learn the secrets of seductive, scheming Septimus Tuam and stop him in his tracks - he learns all about love, its friends and enemies. The Love Department was William Trevor's third novel, published in 1966. It will be enjoyed by readers of Colm Toibin, Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark. 'A fantasy which proliferates entertainingly from a germ of reality - the reality of boredom felt by comfortably-off suburban wives' Listener 'William Trevor can pack into ten or twenty pages an astounding richness of pathos, humour and tragedy' Francis King William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, in 1928, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He has lived in England for many years. The author of numerous acclaimed collections of short stories and novels, he has won many awards including the Whitbread Book of the Year, The James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. He has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize: in 1976 with his novel The Children of Dynmouth, in 1991 with Reading Turgenev and in 2002 with The Story of Lucy Gault. He recently received the prestigious David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Trevor, William. The Love Department. Bodley Head, 1966.
Price: US$153.70 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Blue cloth. Very nice copy in like dustwrapper. The author's fourth book.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Trevor, William. The Love Department. London; Bodley Head;, 1966.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Fine in near fine, but for a small piece missing along top edge, dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
TREVOR, William. The Love Department. Bodley Head, 1966, 1966.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, extremely clean pages, no foxing, in a very near fine dustjacket, not price-clipped. Very nice example of the author's third novel, as per his own list.
Seller: Shellhouse Books, Quinton, Northants, United Kingdom
TREVOR, William. THE LOVE DEPARTMENT. Bodley Head, 1966.
Price: US$176.76 + shipping
Description: First edition. Publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt in the pictorial dustwrapper. A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, a little dusty to the spine but otherwise clean and bright. Lady Dolores ran the offices of the Love Department, resolving the heartaches of the wives of Wimbledon.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Trevor, William. The Love Department. The Bodley Head. First English edition., London, 1966.
Price: US$198.51 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Love's problems solved by Lady Dolores Bourhardie, agony aunt at a famous magazine, who, as the novel begins takes on a new male assistant. Fine in dustwrapper
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Trevor, William. The Love Department. Bodley Head, London, 1966.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first British edition, published by The Bodley Head in 1966. The author's uncommon third book. A bright and square copy. A near fine copy of the book with spotting to the edges in a near fine dust jacket slightly darkened to the spine. Previous owner's signature.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
William Trevor. The Love Department *Signed*. Bodley Head, 1966.
Price: US$204.94 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed by Author(s) A Near fine book with some slight bumps to bottom edge of spine, in a very good DW. DW has some slight chips to top of its spine and a 1" tear to front cover, has been price clipped. Now protected in plastic. Signed to the titlepage by author, without inscription.
Seller: The Books of Eli, Birmingham, United Kingdom
William Trevor. The Love Department (uncorrected proof copy). Bodley Head, 1966.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The Love Department (uncorrected proof copy" by William Trevor. Bodley Head, London. 1966, uncorrected proof copy. Rare copy, with some wear to covers.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Trevor, William. The Love Department. London; Bodley Head;, 1966.
Price: US$230.56 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Fine in near fine dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
TREVOR, William (1928-2016). The Love Department. London: Bodley Head, 1966, 1966.
Price: US$230.56 + shipping
Description: [Romantic Litrature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm ), pp. 296. Publishers turquoise blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket designed by Stephen Russ with price of 25s to flap. Minor spotting on edges. Near Fine. William Trevor was born in County Cork on Empire Day 1928. Educated at Trinity College Dublin, he was later awarded the Hawthornden Prize for his novel, The Old Boys, which was acclaimed by Evelyn Waugh.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
TREVOR, William. The Love Department. Bodley Head, London, 1966.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, blue textured boards, d.w. London: Bodley Head, 1966. First Edition. Fine.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
TREVOR, William.. The Love Department.. The Bodley Head, London., 1966.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Description: First edition. The author's uncommon third novel. Octavo. 295 pages.Spine slightly bruised at head and tail. Near fine in fine dustwrapper designed by Stephen Russ with a small nick at top edge of front panel.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
TREVOR, William. The Love Department. Bodley Head, 1966.
Price: US$288.19 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first impression. Signed by the author. Edges foxed, slight bruising to head and tail of spine, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper.
Seller: Kestrel Books and Gallery, Hereford, United Kingdom
TREVOR, William.. The Love Department.. The Bodley Head, London., 1966.
Price: US$448.30 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 295 pages. The author's third novel.Signed by the author on the title-page using his full name William Trevor Cox. [From the library of his close friend Peter Porter, the Australian-born poet. They no doubt met while both were working at Notley's advertising agency in Soho. In 2016 he wrote Trevor's obituary for The Guardian.]Head and tail of spine slightly pushed. Very good in very good dustwrapper, designed by Stephen Russ, darkened at the spine and with a small chip and nick at top edge.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Trevor Williams. The Love Department. London: Bodley Head, 1966.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Perfectly Fine copy in like dust jacket of the third novel (after The Old Boys and The Boarding-House by the multi-award-winning author. Rarely seen in such lovely condition.
Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.