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Bates, H.E.. The Two Sisters. Jonathan Cape LTD, London, 1926.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 20 x 13 cm. 320 pgs in wine red cloth. VG+ with slight fading to spine and some discoloration to endpapers else clean. Spine a bit cocked. Foreword by Edward Garnett. The authors first novel published when he was 20 years old. Set in the English countryside.
Seller: Carl Blomgren Fine Books ABAA, petaluma, CA, U.S.A.
Bates, H.E.. The Two Sisters. Jonathan Cape, London, 1926.
Price: US$102.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by author on half title page. Covers have very light rubbing.
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom
Bates, H.E.. The Two Sisters.. Jonathan Cape London 1926, London, 1926.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good condition, hardback, light shelfwear 1st Issue with inscription of Cile Miller, author of an unpublished bibliography of H.E. Bates from Martin Wagner
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Bates, H. E.. The Two Sisters. Jonathan Cape, London, 1926.
Price: US$179.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Uncorrected Proof. 8vo. Pp 219. Card wraps. Spine creased and faded, and there is some darkening/soiling to the wraps. A little wear and creasing to corners. Internally clean and sound.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Bates, H.E.. The Two Sisters. Jonathan Cape, London, 1926.
Price: US$217.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dustwrapper, now protected, is complete with just slight browning of the spine. Neat owner's signature. A lovely bright copy.
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom
Bates, H.E.. The Two Sisters. Jonathan Cape, London, 1926.
Price: US$224.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dustwrapper, now protected, shows only the slightest signs of wear. An excellent copy.
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom
Bates, H.E.. The Two Sisters. Jonathan Cape, London, 1926.
Price: US$294.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback. A very good copy in the original maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. In a good dustwrapper the spine of which is a little darkened, which has two small chips at the top of the spine and which has been sellotaped along the edges by a previous owner. The wrapper, which is not price-clipped, is now protected in a clear removable sleeve. Bookplate on front fixed end-paper. Inscribed by the author on the half-title as follows: " J.A. Spencer from H.E. Bates. September 1930." 320 pages. The author's first novel. Photographs available on request.
Seller: Blacket Books, PBFA, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-320, original maroon cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. The authors' second book and first published novel. The prolific Bates was primarily a writer of short stories and in this field he was highly regarded by David Garnett and Graham Greene, among others. His style has been traced to the influence of Conrad (and thus of Henry James) and Stephen Crane, but his subject matter is definitely British, concentrating on the lives and tragedies of rural workers, occasionally touching on the theme of madness. Bates' stories appeared frequently in Edward J. O'Brien's annual anthology series, BEST BRITISH SHORT STORIES. NCBEL IV 520. Gawsworth, Ten Contemporaries II, p. 24. Neat owner's initials at top of front free endpaper. Top edge a bit dusty, a nearly fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with shelf wear and rubbing at edges, some age-darkening, and old internal tape mends at spine ends. (#128151)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
BATES H.E. TWO SISTERS. Cape, London, 1926.
Price: US$448.30 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Original maroon cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First UK edition. The authors' second book and first published novel. Indiscriminate marks to the boards in places and softening to the spine tips otherwise a VG copy in like D/W heavily darkened to the spine, creased with minor wear at the spine tips, rubbed to the extremities and rather soiled. Signed by H E Bates on the FFEP and believed to be his own copy. Enclosed within is a letter (dated 26 May 1930) from The Panton Bookmart a bookseller in Haymarket, London indicating that this is H E Bates own copy with the correction on the inside flap of the D/W by him
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Bates, H E. The Two Sisters - SIGNED by the Author. London Jonathan Cape 1926, 1926.
Price: US$480.32 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1926. Original maroon cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. The authors' second book and first published novel. Softening of the spine tips and a touch of foxing to the top edge otherwise a near fine copy. The wrapper is also in near fine condition with a vertical crease along the full length of the spine and a touch of creasing at the spine tips. A lovely, bright and crisp copy. Unusually the wrapper has not had the small clips to all 4 corners and is ½ cm too tall for the book. One can only surmise that this is perhaps a proof dust wrapper of some sort. Clearly it has been folded in half at some stage and stored separately as it is really, bright and crisp. Signed by the author on the half-title. A superior copy of a book usually found to be in less than collectable condition. Very nice indeed. One of 1500 copies.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom