Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$38.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first British printing. No jacket. Brown boards with (faded) gold lettering to spine and gold lettering to front are very good with minor pushing/bumping to corners, a few marks to front, minor patchy fading (including to spine), the odd small bump/rub to edges and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/slight fraying to the cloth) to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Top of pages dyed brown. Previous owner's name and date in pen inside front board. Pages are a bit tanned. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Brooke (Jocelyn). The scapegoat.. The Bodley Head, 1948.
Price: US$38.67 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London, The Bodley Head, 1948. In-8, (8pp.), 128pp. Plein cartonnage de l'éditeur. Edition originale. Cartonnage légèrement défraichi, intérieur très frais. Bel exemplaire.
Seller: Rometti Vincent, Nice, France
Brooke (Jocelyn).. The Scapegoat. Bodley Head,, 1948.
Price: US$40.59 + shipping
Description: Gilt lettering on spine dull and covers just a little marked, otherwise a nice copy; neat ownership inscription on front paste-down end-paper
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Brooke, Jocelyn. The Scapegoat. The Bodley Head, 1948.
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Slim 8vo, pictorial dust jacket over terracotta cloth boards with gilt titles on spine, upper edge red. 128pp. Dust jacket not price clipped with some edge wear and a small piece absent. Very good + / near fine and clean inside. There has been an inscription on the front endpaper, which is barely visible & has been rubbed out by a previous owner. 'The Scapegoat' seemed to promise a tale which might combine the tantalizing excitements of a Myth or Dream with the absorbing interest of a vigorous realistic story'. Intense, imaginative unease.
Seller: Bird's Books, Edinburgh, SCOTL, United Kingdom
Jocelyn Brooke. The Scapegoat. Bodley Head, 1948.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: jacket has small closed tear, a bit of glue from fallen bookplate inside covers, no markings, first edition stated
Seller: Fantastic Book Discoveries, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Jocelyn Brooke. The Scapegoat. The Bodley Head, London, 1948.
Price: US$154.59 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A smart first edition copy of this novel ruminating on childhood by Jocelyn Brooke, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this post-war novel exploring themes of childhood and masculinity. This work, which provokes a sense of unease in its reader, was originally published as a short excerpt in John Lehmann's 'Orpheus'.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.By Jocelyn Brooke, an English author and naturalist who is best known for his 'Orchid' trilogy. Brooke's reputation declined after his death, though Anthony Powell considered him to be a greatly underrated author. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Very light bumping and fading to the head and tail of the spine. Light edge wear to the dust wrapper, with a repaired tear to the tail of the spine. Light handling marks to the wraps. Spine is a little sunned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom