Adrift In Soho
by Wilson, Colin
Adrift In Soho is a novel by Colin Wilson. It was first published in England in 1961 by Victor Gollancz. The story opens in the late summer of 1955. Nineteen year old Harry Preston, having been granted an early discharge from national service with the RAF, moves to London from a small English provincial town. Fancying himself as a writer, he drifts towards the central district of Soho, where he meets an out of work actor, James Street.
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Adrift in Soho
by WILSON, Colin
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- 1964
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London, Ontario, CAN
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London: Pan Books, 1964. Softcover. Very good. Pan Books x 297. 172, [4] p. 18 cm. Paperback. Light wear. Paper browning.
The comic, sad, blazingly honest hovel of a young man's search for experience among London's eccentrics, beats and artists. Item Price
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, CAN
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London: Victor Gollancz 1961, 1st printing. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 224pp. Small chip out of lower front panel of very ligthly edgeworn dust jacket. (Fiction, Modern Firsts). Item Price
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ADRIFT IN SOHO
by Wilson, Colin
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- 1961
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Livonia, Michigan, USA
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Houghton Mifflin. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ; Green cloth cover has light wear to corners and spine caps but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Lacking dust jacket but flaps have been trimmed and taped to the front and rear… Read more about this item Item Price
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Adrift in Soho
by Wilson, Colin
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Germantown, New York, USA
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Adrift in Soho by Colin Wilson
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1961. Hardcover, green cloth. First edition (stated), actually the first American edition. Boards and spine are straight, book is unmarked, and the binding is tight. Lacking the jacket. Wilson's second novel presents a vivid portrayal of beat generation characters in 1950s London. Item Price
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Adrift in Soho
by Wilson, Colin
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Wantage, New Jersey, USA
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CollectibleGood. 1961 Houghton Mifflin 1st edition 1st printing hardcover with jacket. Good hardcover copy with jacket, solid binding, mild to moderate reading/age wear, jacket has some mild edge wear, may have ex owner inscription and/or some light markings. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer… Read more about this item Item Price
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ADRIFT IN SOHO.
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CHELTENHAM, Victoria, AUS
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London, Victor Gollancz, 1961.. 224pp. 8vo. Original boards in worn dustwrapper. Offsetting to enpapers. Name on ffe. A very good copy.. First edition. Item Price
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Adrift In Soho
by WILSON, Colin
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- Very Good
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- 1961
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Jacket by Jacek von Henneberg. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped and rubbed, very good in a lightly soiled about very good dust jacket with a small faint stain on the rear panel, tanning on the spine and extremities, and a few… Read more about this item Item Price
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Adrift in Soho
by WILSON Colin
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- 1961
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
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NZ$35.00
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London: Victor Gollancz, 1961 second impression before publication, book in excellent shape, small ink name to fep, DW unclipped, slight handling soiling to DW with small scuff to rear panel, small edge tear top edge of rear panel, 224pp, one page has crease from dog-ear, second half of the text block has aged a different tone to the first half.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Adrift in Soho - a novel.
by WILSON, Colin.
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LONDON, GBR
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Victor Gollancz, London., 1961. First edition. Octavo. 224 pages.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ''For Edward - warm regards and admiration - Colin. Sept. 61''. The recipient is his fellow novelist Edward Upward.Free endpapers partially tanned. Edges spotted. Spine partially faded. Good. The remains of the dustwrapper are loosely inserted. Item Price
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ADRIFT IN SOHO
by Wilson, Colin
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Middletown, Maryland, USA
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961. First U.S. edition. "...a very human, very timely picture of young and old beatniks in London." -- from the dust jacket flap. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with touch of light soiling and spine just slightly toned. Item Price
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Adrift in Soho
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Morrinsville, NZL
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Victor Gollancz, London, 1961. Hard Cover, 8vo, 2nd Impression before publication. Near very good. Moderate foxing edges. Boards and interior very clean. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Edgewear and a few small tears along edges.. Item Price
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Adrift in Soho
by Wilson, Colin
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- 9781874057024
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GORING BY SEA, West Sussex, GBR
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Paperback. Acceptable. Item Price
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Adrift in Soho
by Colin Wilson
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GORING BY SEA, West Sussex, GBR
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Paperback. Very Good. Item Price
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