Green, Henry Henry Vincent Yorke (15 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Edward Gorey (illustrator). 1st Edition Thus. Cover Art; The cover art on this book was done by Edward Gorey. First Anchor editino, with A-18 on cop front cover. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have noticeable generalized toning. There is a repaired tear to the bottom front spine joint. There is some light rubbing and wear to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "Loving describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumours about the war in Europe. In an interview published in The Paris Review in 1958 Terry Southern asked Green about his inspiration for Loving. Green replied, "I got the idea of Loving from a manservant in the Fire Service during the war. He was serving with me in the ranks, and he told me he had once asked the elderly butler who was over him what the old boy most liked in the world. The reply was: 'Lying in bed on a summer morning, with the window open, listening to the church bells, eating buttered toast with cunty fingers.' I saw the book in a flash." " (from Wikipedia).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. ***Very good in grey cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. No bumps or tears to the cloth. Small light surface marks to front and rear boards. Edges of boards slightly faded. Slight spine lean but fragile spine tight. Internally also very good, with the original owner's name, date and place in sepia fountain ink 'Ann Giffard, Easter 1953, Hawick' to top of front free endpaper - and with an attractive contemporaneous Ex Libris black and white illustrated maritime bookplate with the printed names of Basil Greenhill & Ann Giffard to pastedown, with illustration of an old sailing ship and the printed inscription "Polacca brigantine John Blackwell built at Weare Giffard in 1862". Text pages clean. with just a couple of light fox marks to the prelims. No dustwrapper. ***188 x 128 mm. 208 pages. ***From the library of Basil Greenhill and Ann Giffard. Has an Ex Libris association maritime bookplate of two authors: Ann Giffard and Basil Greenhill, who were husband and wife. Basil Greenhill was an author of books and articles on maritime history. He was in the navy, became a lieutenant, worked at the radar research establishment at Malvern, and tested radar on bombers; he later became a diplomat and he was also the director of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. He wrote many books and numerous articles on maritime history, many researched and written with his second wife, Ann Giffard. His best-known book was his two-volume "The Merchant Schooners 1951?57". ***A fragile post-war publication from the Hogarth Press. A true first edition, first impression of Henry Green's first post-war published work in nice collectable condition, albeit without the dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Signed by Ann Giffard: associa.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Vanessa Bell [Dustwrapper design] (illustrator). 5th or later Edition. An ex-library copy of this later edition, published in 1979. The book was first published in 1946, with further printings appearing in 1951 and 1964. Dustwrapper designed by Vanessa Bell. ***Very good in light-grey cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright having been protected by the dustwrapper. Boards clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Bottom edge of front board also slightly creased. Corners sharp. Light vertical reading crease to the spine. Small 'B' printed onto the top edge of the page block, which is otherwise clean. Internally the book is also very good, but has the following library marks and paperwork: Library lending sheet and barcode to the front free endpaper; off-setting from barcode affecting the next couple of pages; library acquisition stamp to printer's page; blank white sticker to the rear pastedown. Beside these library marks and insertions, the interior pages are nice and clean, with just a small light stain affecting the last few pages. No foxing. No tears or creases. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, with the attractive original design by Vanessa Bell to the front panel. The dustwrapper has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £5.50 net. The dustwrapper is complete, without any chips or tears - just slight offsetting from a library label to the bottom of the spine [now removed]. The cream areas of the dustwrapper are nice and clean. Dustwrapper bright. ***205 mm x135 mm. 208 pages. ***'This novel tells the story of a man who came back from prison to find everything the same - and at the same time different. "He has a quiet sureness of touch often lacking in his contemporaries. This is a tale unfolded with subtlety and economy of words." - News Review [Quote and review quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***An ex-library copy of a later edition of "Back" by Henry Green, which was originally published just after World War Two. A nice reading copy of a book which is quite elusive in the dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

fester Einband. 1.-4.Auflage, 372 Seiten, O.Ln., 8° (ohne Schutzumschlag / Einband unauffällig etw. fleckig) Deutsche Erstausgabe [DEA] // siehe Mängel, sonst guter Zustand.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Mona Moore (Jacket design) (illustrator). First Edition. A fourth impression of the true first edition, published in 1969. The book was first published in 1948, with further impressions appearing s in 1950, 1954 and this impression in 1969. Dustwrapper designed by Mona Moore, replicating that of the first edition. ***Near fine in brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright having been protected by the dustwrapper. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. No bumps or tears to the cloth. Edges of page block nice and clean without any foxing. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean with no foxing. No creases or tears. No reading lean. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, with the attractive original design by Mona Moore to the front panel. The dustwrapper has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 21s net, with a light shadow from a re-price sticker that has now been removed. The dustwrapper is complete, without any creases, chips or tears - just a few light marks to the back panel, and a very small stain at the bottom corner of the back panel. Dustwrapper bright. ***188mm x130mm. 254 pages. ***'Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke (1905-1973), an English author best remembered for the novels "Party Going", "Living" and "Loving". He published a total of nine novels between 1926 and 1952.' (Wiki) ***'"Concluding" is the story of a summer's day around the year 2000. The setting is a country property, owned by the State. In the manor house is a school for State servants, jeunes filles en fleurs, ruled by two elderly spinsters. In a corner of the estate lives old Mr Rock, a humanist scientist, whom the spinsters regard as a threat to their school; and in between are the woods, full of azaleas and mystery. The mystery is sustained to the end in a haze of lyrical beauty, for nothing is as it seems in the fifteen hour transition from dawn to dusk.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A later fourth impression of "Concluding" by Henry Green, which was originally published soon after World War Two. Of interest to collectors of the work of Henry Green and the Hogarth Press. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Leonard Rosoman [Dustwrapper design] (illustrator). 5th or later Edition. A later edition, published in 1978. The book was first published in 1943, with further printings appearing three times in that year, 1950, 1951 and 1965. Dustwrapper designed by Leonard Rosoman. ***Very good in light-brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright having been protected by the dustwrapper. Boards clean with just some very light marks to the back board. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. No bumps or tears to the cloth. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Pages clean with no foxing. The book would be described as near fine, but for a small closed tear at the top edge of the rear free endpaper. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, with the attractive original design by Leonard Rosoman to the front panel. The dustwrapper has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £4.25 net. The dustwrapper is complete, without any chips or tears - just light browning to the cream areas. Dustwrapper bright. ***205 mm x135 mm. 196 pages. ***'One of Mr. Green's most celebrated novels, "Caught" is set in the uneasy year that opened the war and was ended by the Blitz. Its characters are the men who form the crew of a sub-station of the London Fire Force, and their womenfolk. Henry Green was born in 1905 and spent his youth in his family home in the West Country. After Eton and Oxford he worked with his father in an engineering company, but pursued a parallel career as a novelist. Recently John Updike wrote: "His novels made more of a stylistic impact upon me than those of any other writer living or dead."' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***A later edition of "Caught" by Henry Green, which was originally published during World War Two. Of interest to collectors of the work of Henry Green and the Hogarth Press. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Göttingen, Steidl, 1987. 8°. 286 Seiten, 1 Bl. OLeinen mit farbig illustr. OUmschlag. Erste deutsche Ausgabe. Gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Deutsch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***.

Göttingen, Steidl, 1990. 8°. 286 Seiten, 1 Bl. OLeinen mit farbigem OUmschlag. Erste deutsche Ausgabe. - Texte von Terry Southern, Frank Kermode und Valentine Cunningham; 8°; 43 Seiten; OBrosch. Gutes Exemplar. Separat beiliegend umfangreiches Materialien-Heft von Steidl zum Roman. Sprache: Deutsch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Lynton Lamb (illustrator). First Edition. 12mo. Pp. 246. Light red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Light red topstain. Very light foxing to endpapers, boards square, leaves crisp and bright. In the two-color illustrated dust jacket with very slight wear to head of spine; price 8s 6d intact on the front flap. An especially well-preserved "frivolous, entertaining comedy of manners" from the lauded author of Living, Party Going, Loving, and Back. The dust jacket, featuring an illustration by Lynton Lamb, is consistent with Hogarth's art-direction, presenting an understated tableau of two women, faces only partially filled out, in front of a mirror. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine-. First Edition. First Impression of the author's final novel. Small 8vo: [4],252pp. Publisher's aquamarine cloth, spine lettered in gold, top edge stained yellow; Lynton Lamb illustrated dust jacket, priced 11s/6d. Better than Near Fine (dust-soiled top edge, front edge lightly spotted, but binding square and tight), pages clean and unmarked; about Fine jacket (tips of spine panel lightly rubbed). A collectible copy. Written almost entirely in dialogue (a technique that has drawn much appreciative comment), Henry Green's comedy of manners exposes the deceptive difference between those who love and those who "dote." Stuck in a passionless marriage, a middle-aged, upper-middle class man living in post-World War II London becomes infatuated with a much younger woman. Their relationship sets into motion a series of intertwining affairs among five close friends less concerned with love than with their attempts to keep the other lovers apart. "Green's later years were characterized by depression, heavy drinking, and destabilising affairs. . . . What was desultory or even sordid in Green's private life, however, again provided grist for his creative mill." (Literary Encyclopedia) Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

1950, 5th printing. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 196pp. The spine is very lightly faded, the top corner of the back cover is bumped, and the dust jacket has some edgewear and also rubbing on the back panel. Pseudonym of Henry Vincent Yorke. (Fiction, World War 2).

Lynton Lamb (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Original pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped), acquamarine green cloth, with gilt-stamped titles on spine. Open chip to head of spine of dust jacket, affecting one letter of text, some additional small chipping and closed tear to top of jacket. Very light shelf wear to edges of cloth. Dust jacket illustration by Lynton Lamb. Still, a neat and tidy book. Simply put, "Doting", is about an open marriage that is going swell until the husband chooses a woman 25 years his junior. (Bad form.) Green pairs simple moments with his usual genius for symbolic and distinctive dialogue. Sometimes compared to Evelyn Waugh, both authors were more than likely results of the dry and withering wit reserved exclusively for post-war England. Green's final novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. John Banting (Dustwrapper design) (illustrator). Second Edition. Second edition - the book was first published September 1939, with a second impression in November 1939. This second edition, published in 1947, was effectively the third impression, using the same-sized illustrated dustwrapper as the first two impressions, with the dustwrapper marked as third impression to the bottom of the front flap. Dustwrapper designed by John Banting. ***Near fine in light-grey cloth-covered boards with dark red titles to the spine. Pale yellow top edge stain by the publisher to match the colour of the dustwrapper. Boards clean and unmarked. No bumps or tears to the cloth. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean with no foxing. No creasing or tears. Slight spine lean but spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, with the attractive design by John Banting to the front panel. The dustwrapper has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 7s. 6d. net. The dustwrapper is complete, without any chips or tears - just light edge wear and creasing, and there is some clear tape reinforcing to the reverse of the top edge of the rear panel of the dustwrapper. Back panel very clean. Dustwrapper bright. ***188mm x134mm. 255 pages. ***"Party Going" deals with some young people who are going on a holiday. Fog delays them at the station, and when their train leaves four hours later the book ends. Three of them are in love or think they are. The result is entertaining and something more'. (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke (29 Oct 1905 - 13 Dec 1973), an English writer best remembered for the novels "Party Going", "Living" and "Loving". He published a total of nine novels between 1926 and 1952.' ***'Frank Kermode maintained in his essay "The Genesis of Secrecy" that behind the realistic plot of this novel there is a complex web of mythical images, the most important being the figure of the classical Greek god Hermes, which is strongly tied to one of the characters. This led Kermode to consider "Party Going" as a Modernist novel, strongly influenced by the ideas of T.S. Eliot.' (Wiki) ***A beautiful copy of the second edition, or third impression, of "Party Going" by Henry Green. Copies from this period are very hard to find now in the original dustwrappers, which were produced on very thin paper, and especially so in such nice condition. Of interest to collectors of the work of Henry Green and the Hogarth Press. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Second impression of the second edition, published in 1948 by the Hogarth Press. The book was first published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. in 1929, but wasn't published again until this Hogarth Press edition in 1948. Second edition stated on the printer's page, with Second Impression on the title page. ***Near fine in bright yellow cloth-covered boards with red titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or tears to the cloth. Red top edge stain by the publisher is unfaded and clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions and beautifully clean pages with no foxing. No creasing or tears. Binding square with no reading lean. Spine tight. ***In a very good printed dustwrapper, whixh has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 8s 6d net. The dustwrapper is complete, without any creases, chips or tears - just very light edge wear and some browning to the spine. Dustwrapper otherwise clean and bright. ***190mm x130mm. 269 pages. ***'A rich mosaic, composed from the lives -- on the job and at home -- of a group of employees in a Birmingham factory. Adventurous in technique, warmly human and humorous in its material, Mr. Green's second novel shows him already a master of dialogue'. (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper - interesting as Henry Green had at that time published eight novels, so the publisher probably used the original 'blurb' from the 1929 edition) ***'Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke (29 Oct 1905 - 13 Dec 1973), an English writer best remembered for the novels "Party Going", "Living" and "Loving". He published a total of nine novels between 1926 and 1952.' ***'"Living" is a work of sharp social observation, documenting the lives of Birmingham factory workers in the inter-war boom years. It is considered a modern classic by scholars, and appears on many university syllabi. The language is notable for its deliberate lack of conjunctives to reflect a Birmingham accent. As well, very few articles are used, allegedly to mimic foreign languages (such as Arabic) that use them infrequently. It is considered a work of Modernist literature. The novel has been acclaimed for making Green "an honorary member of a literary movement to which he never belonged", i.e. the genre of proletarian literature. Despite his class origin and politics, the novel has been acclaimed as "closer to the world of the working class than those of some socialist or worker-writers themselves"' (Wiki) ***A beautiful copy of the second edition of Henry Green's second novel "Living". Copies of this edition are very hard to find now in the original dustwrapper, and especially so in such nice condition. Of interest to collectors of the work of Henry Green and the Hogarth Press. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1929. 1st Edition . Very Good/No Jacket. First edition, first impression. Book in very good condition in the original cloth, which has about 1/2 inch width of light fading along the edges. Some wear to extremities, and fading to spine. 269 pages. Internally, previous owner's signature to front free endpaper and there is a small bookseller's stamp to bottom right corner of rear pastedown. A couple of small light stains to bottom of rear endpapers. Rear inner hinge is beginning to split along paper, but holding firmly. There is some sporadic light spotted foxing, especially to endpapers and prelims, and a few small marks to the bottom of about 3 pages. Slight lean to spine. Overall a very good copy of this scarce book. Please enquire for any more information.