The Doomed Oasis. A Novel of Arabia by Innes, Hammon - 1960

Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1960. No Edition Stated. 248 pages. Orange jacket over green cloth. Pages are rough cut. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

New York: Knopf, c1960. Book Club edition. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 341 p., 22 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, c1960. First Am edition. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 341 p.

Collins, 1900-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 1960 Collins UK 1st edition, Fine-minus/Near Fine DJ in Mylar, dustjacket has 2 very short tears, in mylar coating, clean & bright, no markings found, top corner very slightly bumped, a nice copy.

London: Collins, 1960. First edition. Top corners just lightly bumped, else near fine in a very good dust jacket, with a 2 cm creased tear to front panel, and some small edge-nicks..

London: Collins, 1960 VG/VG. 8vo. original black boards gilt (a little gutter separation between FFE& half-title, faint spotting to leaf edges & outer leaves, some fade to spine gilt) in dustwrapper (edges a little frayed with a few closed tears, slight loss to head cap, some internal spotting); pp. 320, with a map. A very good copy. Thriller set in the deserts of the Empty Quarter.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG/VG.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Ex-library with the usual markings. Besides two tape marks to flap and a slight crease to rear flao the jacket in nice shape. First American Edition stated. Dust jacket art by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG.No owner inscptn, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,colour pictorial artwork illustrated front+spine of dw/dj with capitalised,white-lettered author name and pale orange-lettered title; slightly darkened spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+ lettered author+title as front panel and publisher's capitalised,black-lettered name to foot of same,rear panel with author's b/w portrait photograph.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no major tears or splits present.Head+foot of spine/backstrip with minimal bumping and reciproacl creases,and miniscule chipping.Top+fore-edges lightly aged and with very minimal blemishes but reasonably clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips to any pages' corners,appears unread other than my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt-lettered… Read More