The Fox In the Attic
by Hughes, Richard
Richard Hughes (1900-1976) was born in Surrey, England, but his ancestors came from Wales and he considered himself a Welshman. After an early childhood marked by the deaths of two older siblings and his father (his mother then went to work as a magazine journalist), Hughes attended boarding school and, with every expectation of being sent to fight in the First World War, enrolled in the military. Armistice was declared, however, before he could see active service, and Hughes was free to go to Oxford, where he became a star on the university literary scene, with a book of poems in print and a play produced in the West End by the time he graduated in 1922. Hughes’s first novel, A High Wind in Jamaica, came out in 1928 and was a best seller in the United Kingdom and America. In Hazard followed ten years later. Hughes also wrote stories for children and radio plays, but his final major undertaking was the “The Human Predicament”, an ambitious amalgamation of fact and fiction that would track the German and English branches of a single family into the disaster of the Second World War while offering a dramatic depiction of Hitler’s rise to power. The work was planned as a trilogy, but remained incomplete at the time of Hughes’s death. The first volume, The Fox in the Attic, appeared in 1960, to great critical acclaim; volume two, The Wooden Shepherdess, was published in 1973. All of Hughes’s completed novels are available fromNYRB Classics.Hilary Mantel is the author of many novels, including Beyond Black and Wolf Hall.
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1961 Harper & Brothers, NY 1961 EDITION: First Edition assumed with none stated. Hardback, light edge and tip wear with dust jacket. Blue with black spine. Jacket in very good condition, chipping at the spine ends. Pages are bright, clean and crisp, unmarked, and book is tight and sturdy. SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately) 352 pages.
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London: Reprint Society. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. The Human Predicament series; 287 pages; Former owner's name on ffep - " Polly & Kim Roosevelt", scattered foxing, otherwise clean and secure in original binding in edgeworn dustjacket. Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 2000), grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, joined… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE FOX IN THE ATTIC
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Harper & Bros.. Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket. 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ; Half black cloth cover with blue boards is toned along very top edge and bottom edge otherwise pristine. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Signed by author on blank page protecting title page with publisher's "First Edition Circle" card… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo. 352 pp. A novel by the author of A High Wind in Jamaica. Quarter black cloth over blue boards. A sound very good copy in price-intact dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the blank page placed prior to the title page. Item Price
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New York: Signet, 1963. 1st Paperback Edition Thus. Soft cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Signet T2281 $.75 Cover Price. Sharp, unread first paperback printing, April, 1963. Tight, solid and clean throughout. Some fairly minor surface and edge wear. A very attractive, collectible copy of the first printing. Item Price
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with silver and blue lettering and blue paper over boards, dust jacket. 352pp. Decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Slight jacket edgewear. First U.S. edition of this first novel in "The Human Predicament" series, boldly signed by Hughes in black ballpoint on a special tipped-in leaf. A 5½" X… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, a crease at the front flap. Quarter blue cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Item Price
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The Fox in the Attic: Volume One.
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Penguin, 1964. Paperback. Good. 1964. First Thus. 331 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. 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. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning. Item Price
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. Later printing. Hardcover. 352 pages. A novel from the author of "High Wind in Jamaica." A tight and clean near fine copy with a small former owner signature to the front free endpaper in a near fine dust jacket with a few small edte tears and very minor edge wear. Signed by Hughes… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Fox in the Attic: The Human Predicament
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1961. First Edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Chatto & Windus, 1961. Some foxing to edges. Very good in very good dj.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.. Item Price
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New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 0060119853 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 352 pages; [SIGNED] 1961 Harper & Brothers HC/DJ 1st edition. Signed by the author on a tipped in leaf at front and with the Kroch & Brentano's "First Edition Circle" typographic cards laid in.… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. original cloth backed boards hardcover,352 pages,very good in torn hence poor unclipped dustwrapper.Shelf N27.
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Light soiling to the edges of the boards, else near fine in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with some light soiling and light wear to the edges of the spine and panels. Item Price
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Harper and Brothers, New York, 1961. Signed by the author on a tipped in sheet. 8vo, 352pp. A very good hardback copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Item Price
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, clothbacked boards
Signed by Hughes on an inserted leaf - likely for Kroch's & Brentano's First Edition Circle. This is the first volume in his unfinished trilogy of European life from the Twenties to the end of WWII. Item Price
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The Fox in the Attic
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New York: Harper & Bros, 1961. The second volume of Hughes's projected group of novels entitled "The Human Predicament," sadly unfinished at his death. The series was intended as a "history of my own times" that would culminate in World War Two. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition. Bright blue paper-covered boards with black cloth spine;… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE FOX IN THE ATTIC: The Human Predicament, Volume One.
by Hughes, Richard
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London:: Chatto & Windus,, 1961.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in blue boards, lacking the dust jacket (slight spine slant, prev owner's name and a few pencilled annotations, underlining.). First printing. Hughes first novel in 24 years, and the first in a series of novels that will cover the period from the first World War to the… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Harper & Row, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Later printing. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper. Item Price
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961 By the author of "A High Wind in Jamaica>" Owner's name in ink on FFEP. Decorative end papers. Blue cloth with black spine. Unclipped dust jacket with $4.50 price intact. Chipping and creasing, all evident in photo, at each edge of the jacket.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Item Price
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