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Ivy Compton Burnett. A Father and His Fate. Victor Gollancz, 1972.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: *** BOOK in fine unmarked condition. Red boards with gilt title on spine. 214 pages. *** DUST JACKET in fine condition, not price clipped and now Trimsleeve protected. Novel first published in 1957, and is the fifteenth of the author's novels depicting the power struggles which took place in Victorian country houses. Unusual to have I C-B books in such good condition. Size: 205x140mm
Seller: Salusbury Books, GLASGOW, United Kingdom
Compton-Burnett, I. [Ivy]. Pastors and Masters. Victor Gollancz, London, 1972.
Price: US$16.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1972. 96pp. Originally published in 1925. Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) was an English novelist. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel 'Mother and Son'. Her works consist mainly of dialogue and focus on family life among the late Victorian or Edwardian upper middle class. Previous owner's name to top of ffep and fairly minor pen marking/notes to 12 pages of the text. Otherwise the book is in excellent condition. The unclipped dust jacket has slight creasing to edges but is overall in excellent condition. The dustwrapper is in an easily removed clear plastic protective cover.
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. The Last and the First. Victor Gollancz, London, 1972.
Price: US$25.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1972. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies, of which this is number 473. 139pp. Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) was an English novelist. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel 'Mother and Son'. Her works consist mainly of dialogue and focus on family life among the late Victorian or Edwardian upper middle class. 'The Last and the First' was her last work and first published posthumously in 1971. A uniform, limited edition of her works, with the exception of 'Dolores', was issued by Victor Gollancz. The book is bound in the original red cloth covered boards with gold titling to the spine. The book is in very good condition and the contents are tight and clean. There is no inscription and the copy number is handwritten on the copyright page. The unclipped dustwrapper is also very good with some shelf wear and light soiling. The spine is slightly faded with light bumping and small nicks at the spine ends. There are also small nicks on the top corners. The dustwrapper is in an easily removed clear plastic protective cover.
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Ivy Compton-Burnett. A Heritage & It's History. Victor Gollancz, London, UK, 1972.
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A commemorative reprint, one of the collected novels set, published posthumously at the author's behest. Number 374 of a limited edition of 500. Firmly bound in clean red cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Corners and spine ends all very good. Text pages have no markings, although there is a gift inscription to half title page. Top edge of text block is red stained and the book has a bound in page marker. D/J is unclipped (no price stated) with no damages and has been protected in a removable clear cover. Despatched same or next working day in protective packaging.
Seller: James Hulme Books, Stourbridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$506.66 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, no. 6 of 500 sets, each volume hand-numbered to title verso, complete in nineteen volumes, 8vo., red cloth, gilt, ribbon bookmarks, top edges magenta; a fine set, in unclipped dust-jackets, which are uniformly sunned to spines, but complete and otherwise near-fine. The set is housed in four slipcases, all of which show light rubbing to joints, and some minor sunning and marking to cloth, else very good. A slight mustiness overall. ?This limited and numbered edition of 500 copies has been produced posthumously in accordance with Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett?s wishes. It was her express desire that her first novel, Dolores, should be excluded from this edition.?
Seller: Minster Gate Bookshop (est. 1970), YORK, United Kingdom