Narrativa e romanzi

The Great Jowett. 525 COPIES WERE PRINTED

GREENE Graham · 0 · Island Books

£320.00 (€383.57 | $422.76 | ¥67,510)

The Bodley Head, [1981]. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in glassine dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 525 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Written originally as a radio play for the BBC, produced and narrated by Stephen Potter, ...

The Eagle has Landed. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

HIGGINS, pseud. Jack · 0 · Island Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)

Collins, [1975]. 8vo., First Edition, with front and rear endpaper maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Barry Glynn. This meticulously-researched novel of WWII is the basis of John Sturges' hugel...

Diaries and Letters. Edited by Nigel Nicolson. THE DIARIES AND LETTERS COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

NICOLSON Harold · 1966 · Island Books

£124.00 (€148.63 | $163.82 | ¥26,160)

Collins, 1966-68. 3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 3 portrait frontispieces, very numerous plates, and pedigree on rear endpapers of third volume ; yellow buckram, gilt backs, blue tops, tops mildly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrappe...

A Murder of Quality. The Lamplighter Edition. [With new Foreword by the author. Second Impression thus.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

LE CARRE John · 0 · Island Books

£26.00 (€31.17 | $34.35 | ¥5,485)

Hodder & Stoughton, [1991]. Roy. 8vo., Second Impression thus, page-edges very lightly tanning as ever; black cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A bright copy of this elegant edition of the author's second novel, first pu...

Eigen schuld

Spanjer, Maarten · 1986 · De Tweede Lezer

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

De Arbeiderspers Met origineel buikbandje 'Maarten Spanjer lezen is een opluchting... H.Hofland'. 1ste druk Amsterdam Goed exemplaar René Boin (omslag) 20x12,5cm 128 blz.

Vanity Fair: a Novel Without a Hero

Thackeray, William Makepeace & Hammond, Chris · 1899 · Greensleeves Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

good pgs:563. 1899, clean copy, feint marks to cover, front endpaper missingm contents clean & bright, no markings, illus, binding tight, Professional booksellers since 1981 James Nisbet

The Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel · 1897 · Greensleeves Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

good pgs:339. 1897, fading to spine, & head chipped, bookplte, name on endpaper, contents clean, with plates, feint foxing to rear board, binding tight, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981 Service & Paton

Cosmopolis,

Croft-Cooke, Rupert, · 1933 · Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

europäische Erstausgabe, Hamburg / Paris / Bologna, The Albatross Verlag / The Albatross Press (= The Albatross Modern Continental Library Volume 88), 1933, 8°, 280 S., Text: englisch, illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), Vorderdeckel mit dem Ansatz einer Knickspur, Buch...

Der Krieg mit den Molchen - Roman, aus dem Tschechischen von Eliska Glaserová,

Capek, Karel, · 1970 · Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

deutsche Taschenbuch Erstausgabe, Zürich, Ullstein (= Ullstein Taschenbuch Band 2795), 1970, 8°, 186 S., illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), Einband am und zum Buchrücken hin mit Wasserrandspuren, Buchrücken an unterer Kante leicht bestoßen, Buchrückenkanten teils minimal...

The Rainbird Pattern,

Canning, Victor, · 1972 · Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

New York, Award Books (= AD 1294), 1972, 8°, 250 S., Rundumgelbschnitt, Text: englisch, original Kartonage (Paperback), Einbandkanten teils minimal beschabt, altes Preisschildchen auf Rückdeckel, sonst gutes, sauberes Exemplar. The novel was adapted by writer Ernest Lehman int...

El Senor de los Anillos, Band I (1): La Comunidad del Antilo / Band II (2): Las Dos Torres / Band III (3): El Retorno del Rey, 3 Bände (= alles), aus dem Engl. in das Spanische von Matilde Horne und Luis Domenech,

Tolkien, John R. R., · 1980 · Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

Mischauflage, Barcelona, Ediciones Minotauro, 1980, 8°, 579 S. mit einer Ausklappkarte / 496 S. / 426 S., Text: spanisch, original Leineneinbände (Hardcover) mit original Schutzumschlägen, Schutzumschläge im Randbereich teils minimal beschabt, Schutzumschlag von Band 1 mit zwe...

Walt Disneys Lustiges Taschenbuch LTB 459: Der Fluch der Farben, blau, blaue Ausgabe,

Disney, Walt, · 2014 · Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

Stuttgart, EHAPA-Verlag (= LTB Nr. 237), 2014, 8°, 254 S. mit farbigen Comic-Darstellungen, farbig illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), der Einband nur minimal knickspurig, sonst aber ein schönes, sauberes Exemplar OHNE Rückenfältchen, Besitzervermerke, Eselsohren etc. in...

Feuer im Grasland - Roman, aus dem Japanischen von Oscar Beul und G. S. Dombrady,

Ooka, Shohei, · 1959 · Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

deutsche Erstausgabe, Stuttgart, Henry Goverts Verlag, 1959, 220 S., Kopfgrauschnitt, original Leineneinband (Hardcover), ohne Schutzumschlag, Schnitt minimal fleckig, sonst gutes, sauberes Exemplar. Ooka Shohei (1909 - 1988) Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main (Nor...

Tief unten, aus dem Französischen von Victor Henning Pfannkuche,

Huysmans, Joris-Karl, · 1972 · Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR

€14.00 ($15.43 | £11.68 | ¥2,464)

Köln, Ullstein (= Ullstein Taschenbuch Band 2856), 1972, 8°, 220 S., farbig illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), Buchrückenkanten teils minimal beschabt, untere Ecke des Vorderdeckels zart bestoßen, ein winziges Fleckchen am rechten Rand des Vorderdeckels, sonst schönes, ...

Beauty in Thorns,

Forsyth, Kate, · 2018 · Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR

€24.00 ($26.45 | £20.02 | ¥4,224)

North Sydney, NSW, Australia, Penguin Random House (= A Vintage book), 2018, 8°, 465 S., Text: englisch, illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), sehr schönes, sauberes Exemplar, wohl ungelesen Sprache: Englisch. Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main (Nordend ggü. Mu...

Frankfurter Märchenschatz - Märchen und märchenhaften Geschichte, aus vielen Quellen geschöpft, herausgegeben und teilweise ganz neu erzählt von Helmut Bode, mit Bildern von Trude von Güldenstubbe,

Bode, Helmut, · 1979 · Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

Erstausgabe, Frankfurt am Main, Waldemar Kramer Verlag, 1979, 8°, 320 S. mit einigen s/w-Abbildungen, farbig illustr. original Pappband, kleine Widmung auf Titelseite, sonst schönes, sauberes und wohl auch ungelesenes Exemplar, Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main ...

Murder on Safari

Huxley, Elspeth · 1988 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

J. M. Dent & Sons First edition, trade softcover. Published London: Dent, 1988, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 203pp. Age toning to paper. Very good. Lord and Lady Baradale, on a posh safari in Kenya, anticipate splendid photo trophies for their luxurious labors. But rather ...

Murder At Government House

Huxley, Elspeth · 1987 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Dent First edition, trade softcover. Published London: Dent, 1987, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 231pp. Age toning to paper. Very good. Life at Government House in the African colony of Chania seems relaxed and booming though Olivia Brandeis, a young anthropologist, senses ...

Jackson's Dilemma

Murdoch, Iris · 1997 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Penguin Books Third printing. Trade softcover. Published UK: Penguin Books, 1997. 8vo. wrappers, 249pp. Very good. In a psychological drama, a mysterious and charismatic English butler derails the marriage of his master, a young aristocrat, and his fiance+a7e, sending them b...

Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns

Mann, Thomas · 1968 · The Wild Muse

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Penguin Books Trade softcover. Published UK: Penguin Books, 1968 reprinted 1982. 8vo. wrappers, 331pp. Age toning to paper. Very good. Thomas Mann, fascinated with the concept of genius and with the richness of German culture, found in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe the embodime...