MAN'S MORTALITY by Arlen, michael - 1933 first edition

William Heinemann, London, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Note. Black coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. A series of linked stories about a possible future written in the 1930s. In this book a global transportation system -- International Aircraft and Airways, Inc., becomes the new global government "..... it was armed with a superb ambition, to dragoon the nations of the world into a colossal scheme of tidiness." – from Note, page IX. Softening to the head and to the heel of the spine and to the book corners. Underlying board visible to the book corners. Flecking to the board edges with the results of insect activity seen to the front fore edge. Coffee cup ring can be seen to the rear panel. There is a 0.25" tear to the top left-hand corner of the backstrip and the lower 1.5" of Cloth of the board has split along the spine data region. Browning to the textblock edges and pages. Marks to the top… Read More

doubleday doran, 1933 first edition . very good bookplate

William Heinemann, 1933. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1933. First Published. 379 pages. Black dust jacket over black cloth. Ex-libris plate stuck to front free endpaper. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Small splits to spine ends. Marks overall. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Visible tanning to spine. Noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges. Water staining to panels.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933. Book. Good+ condition. Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo (8vo). xx, 307 pages of text. Hardcover binding with moderate shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket with large chips out of spine, and numerous tiny chips, tears and creases, as well as minor soiling; protected in archival mylar. Yellow "First Recmmendation of the English Book Society for January..." sticker on front inner dustjacket panel. Less than one dozen pages with creases at corners. Previous owner's name neatly on front endpaper. Tiny stain to top edge of closed pages..

William Heinemann Ltd, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 379 pages (complete).Jacket is worn and marked.Foxing.However it is still in a very good condition when age is considered, well bound and intact. MK.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

GB: Heinemann, 1933. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. BUT front endpaper slightly browned, edges bit spotted and slightly cocked. Entire clean DW has slight edge wear. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG/VG DW.

William Heinemann. Collectible - Very Good. 1933, 1st stated. Black cloth. Spine ends bumped, light foxing spots to fore edge. Interior is clean and sound. Black dust jacket with red lettering. Dj front flap has some remnants of a paper which was glued on.

London: William Heinemann, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/Near Fine. A utopian novel set in the 1980s. Original cloth; dw. pp. 380. Scattered spots to spine edge, and some internally, but generally speaking a nice copy in unusually fresh dust jacket. This copy is also INSCRIBED by Michael Arlen, and seldom found thus.

Doubleday Doran, 1933. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in.

Heinemann, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. signed. Inscribed by Author(s)The boards are worn - some loss to the spine. Mild tanning. Soundly bound.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.