Search Results: the young visitors by wain john

Viking, 1965. Jacket has some wear at spine top.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Viking. 1965 1st ed. 214pp. hardback 8vo: near Very Good in a near Very Good dj [age spots on fore edge & bottom edge & on white spine cloth; else nrVG; dj = few edge nicks & short tears; else nrVG] The prolific English novelist and poet John Wain (1925-94), quondam Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford and former student of C. S. Lewis, was one of the original "Angry Young Men" of 1950s literary Britain, an appellation he did not necessarily accept.

London: Penguin, 1969. 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 2910 Orange/Black cartoon cover. 172 pp. Good copy.

Macmillan, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1965. Reprint. 206 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over grey cloth. Minor tanning to pages with slight dog-eared pages throughout. Boards have minor rubbing and light bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends as well. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1965 The Viking Press, New York. 1965. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to board edges and spine. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($4.50); slight chipping to head and tail; light shelfwear to tips; light rubbing to panels. Black paper over boards with white linen overlay on the spine with Orange and black lettering on the spine. 214 pp 8vo. This book is a spoof of the present-day efforts to thaw the Cold War through what is called "cultural exchange." Elena is a young post-war Russian woman who meets Jack Spade in his Coffee-House. Spade wrote a book that is very popular in Russia about the utter depravity of English life. They are drawn together and Jack is looking for a casual affair and she is oblivious to that. The author then takes the couple through a maze of courting rituals that picture the condition today. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

New York: Viking, 1965. 1st American . Hardcover. Very Good+. No bkplates, names, etc. Only fault: rubbed spine lettering. very good+, no dj, beige cloth w/ black bds. Clean text, tight 214 pgs

Penguin, 1969. Paperback. Good. 1969. First Penguin Edition. 172 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

New York: Viking. 1965. First American Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. 214 pages

A very good book with light edge wear, light dust soiling to the page edges, in a very good dust jacket with light edge wear and sunning to the spine and a tiny chip at the head of the spine. See Photos

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GB: Penguin, 1969. 1st Thus. Paperback. G++.

London: Macmillan, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 1st edition. Grey cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

GB: Penguin, 1969. 1st Thus. Paperback. nrVG.

Hardback 206 pages, ex-library book with usual stamps and markings on cover and several pages, good condition, tight binding, most pages are clean, several pages are stained or with pen marks, one page is slightly torn.

New York: Viking Press, 1965. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine.. The dust jacket has chips and closed tears to the extremities.

London: Macmillan, 1965. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover, spine ends rubbed, a water stain across bottom inside of rear cover and eps, otherwise Good+ in Good+ dustjacket with spine lightly browned on inside.

Harmondsworth. Middlesex.: Penguin, 1969. When a group of Russian students come to Britain, they find one glimmer of hope for our decadent, capitalistic country....Jack Spade. 172 pp. Slight browning to pages. . 1st Penguin Edition. Softcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback.

New York: The Viking Press, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Jacket designed by Paul Bacon. Contemporary owner name, near fine in a price-clipped very good dust jacket with light toning to the spine, extremities and rear panel. A satiric novel of Cold War relations in London.

Macmillan 1965 Hard Back. Good. DJ FairDust Jacket.

New York: Viking, 1965. First printing. Inscribed to friends by the author and signed "all the Wains" on the front free endpaper. The spine is very slightly cocked. Otherwise fine. The dust jacket has frayed spine ends and a very lightly sunned spine. The price. $4.50, is present on the front flap. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Macmillan, 1965. 206 pages. Jacket is good, toning to internal edges, wear and rubbing to external surface, not price clipped. Book shows general fading, previous owner's initials to front free endpaper. East meets west, Moscow meets London, girls meet boys, all in a political context.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

The Viking Press. DJ in archival cover. Review copy with slip laid in. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1965.