Home Is the Hunter by Gontran de Poncins - 1943

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1945. Hardcover. Good. 1945. No Edition Remarks. 142 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscriptions to front pastedown and free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor wear marks to boards.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Book and dustwrapper show rubbing of spine/panels. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition.. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First edition. Very Good+/very good. Clean illustrated cloth boards with green title box, bright silver lettering on spine. No fraying or wear, slight bumping at base of spine. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Translated by Haakon Chevalier. 271 pgs. Dustjacket is not price clipped, has a few small spots, very small edge chips and short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Novel set on a large country estate in the Loire country of pre-war France. The characters are simple people--masters and servants--all seen through the eyes of Jean Menadieu, the old domestic, in whose almost rudimentary soul a strange, compelling loyalty to the past survives the disintegration of the family which he has served for forty years..

London: Victor Gollancz, 1945. Book. About Very Good. Hardcover. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. On a large country estate in France's Loire district, an old domestic who has served faithfully for 40 years watches the disintegration of the old order and the coming of the new. Translated by Haakon Chevalier. Sunning to spine, dusty edges, gently bumped corners, impressions, light general wear, in dust jacket w/sunning to spine, fading to edges, some edgewear, impressions, scuffing, moderate general wear..

New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1943. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First U.S. Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. NEAR-FINE IN NEAR-FINE DJ WITH ORIGINAL $2.50 PRICE AND SLIGHT EDGE WEAR, AND SLIGHTLY DARKENED SPINE. Translated from the French Haakon Chevalier.

NY: REYNAL & HITCHCOCK. Previous owner's name in the book. . VG+. Hardcover. First Edition. 1942.

Hardback. Gollancz, London, 1945. Hardcover with dj. First/first. A neat little book. Covers bear a little rub to top and bottom of spine and to tips but overall very good. Some sun spotting/darkening. Contents are clean and bright. Author also previously published 'Kabloona' , a narrative about the Canadian Arctic. 'Home is the Hunter' by Gontran de Poncins. Author was from a highly privileged background but his life took him in different directions including at one time, living in China. Not exlib and packed and sent with care.