Bill Mortlock (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. boards have some discoloration on bottom right corner (bottom left of back cover); spine is a bit faded, edges worn but boards otherwise in good shape; text block clean, binding tight. Autobiography of a rising young divorce lawyer who is struggling to save his own disintegrating marriage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First American Edition. First American Edition. VG book in VG dustjacket. DJ has light rubbing. [1203].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Has DJ (price on in Pounds & edge wear) - Autobiography of A Solicitor.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. Moderate wear; tape shadows on endpapers. Ex-Library.

Taschenbuch, Condition: Gut. 175 Seiten, Papierqualität und Alter führten zu einer Nachdunklung der Seiten und der Buchschnitt ist angebräunt. Im übrigen ist das Taschenbuch in einem guten Zustand. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 120.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-Very Good. First American Edition. A Cock Robn mystery. Edge wear to the DJ with rubbing at the folds. A small sticker wcrape at the bottom of hte spine. Overall a very good copy.

Hardcovers. Condition: Very Good. ----------Greensih cloth covers, 8 1/2" tall, with white and blacke letters. Book is 8 1/2" tall. 211 pages.VERY GOOD CONDITION, SOLID tight binding and hinges, clean book, fading top edge of covers- - - dust jacket Very good Condition, with original price present on dust jacket.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (Autobiographies, Literature) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First printing. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with flap corners clipped (price intact), short closed tears along the edges.

Condition: Good. 1959. 1st Printing. 211 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Blue cloth. Inscribed by the author with dedication to front free endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges.

1st edition. Presentation inscription by the 'author' on front free end paper. A clean, bright copy Used - Very Good. INSCRIBED copy VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 239pp. HARDCOVER Immaculate internally. No inscriptions. In protected VG d/w. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1959 reprint before publication. Discolouration to spine of DJ and spotting to rear. DJ in protective sleeve. Slight spotting to prelims and page edges. No names or inscriptions.

Zustand: gut bis befriedigend gebundenes Buch mit Schutzumschlag / Umschlag an den Kanten leicht bestoßen / Schnitt etwas angeschmutzt.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Some books arrive with reputations. Others arrive with a faint smell of pipe smoke, a slightly leaning spine, and the unmistakable air of a man who once said ?My learned friend?? before ordering a third whisky at lunch. Lawyer Heal Thyself by Lawyer, Heal Thyself! is very much in the second category. Published in 1959 by Victor Gollancz, and presented here in a handsome third impression complete with a remarkably well-preserved dust jacket, this is the sort of novel that seems to belong permanently to a rain-darkened London afternoon. Barristers drift through chambers, telephones ring with restrained menace, and everyone appears to know at least three people who ought probably not to be left alone with a divorce petition. The title itself sounds less like a book and more like something muttered by a disappointed senior partner shortly before collapsing into an armchair. ( Google Books ) Bill Mortlock ? himself a solicitor, because naturally he was ? clearly knew the legal world well enough to satirise it properly. The result is one of those wonderfully mid-century British novels where the characters are simultaneously respectable and catastrophically human. Somewhere between courtroom drama, social comedy and low-grade emotional collapse, the book wanders cheerfully through the legal profession?s polished veneer while quietly pointing out that the people dispensing wisdom to others are often the very last people who should be trusted with their own lives. And honestly, what a marvellous period object this edition is. The dust jacket has survived with admirable dignity, which is more than can be said for most lawyers or indeed most 1959 dust jackets. The spine is slightly slanted, as shown in the photographs, but in fairness many books from this era lean a little after decades spent standing shoulder-to-shoulder in overstuffed bookcases absorbing nicotine, central heating, and the accumulated disappointment of the British middle classes. It feels less like damage and more like character development. There is also something deeply comforting about old legal fiction from this period. Nobody ?lawyers up? Nobody storms dramatically from the courtroom while orchestral music swells. Instead, people worry quietly, drink steadily, and destroy each other with carefully phrased letters typed on heavy paper. It is civilisation at its most passive-aggressive. A splendid copy for readers who enjoy vintage British fiction, legal satire, or simply books that look as though they ought to live beside a green-shaded lamp in a slightly dusty study. Equally suitable for actual lawyers, retired solicitors, collectors of Gollancz editions, or anyone who enjoys the idea of a novel in which emotional repression is treated as both a lifestyle and a professional qualification. Crappy Old Books: rescuing slightly crooked survivors from the long slow collapse of the twentieth century.

1st edition, hardback, 256pp, pages slightly browned, and brown staining on fore-edges browned, otherwise sound, no inscriptions, red cloth, Good / Good dustwrapper, wrapper edges rubbed and slightly frayed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG+ original red cloth, in VG DW.

Soft Cover. Condition: VG+. First Paperback. 12mo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed & marked, paperstock a little tanned); pp. 192. A very good copy. The first novel by a practising solicitor.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A Planned Coincidence by Bill Mortlock (First UK Edition) Gollancz File Copy A tight bright unread copy. A bright yellow jacket. Rubbed corner tips and minor dust soiling. "File Copy" stamped to back cover. Brodart cover. First UK Edition. A Gollancz Thriller. BOOK.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG- DW. 1st Edition. Small dates written top left of rear endpaper. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Illustr. Karton - Broschur. Condition: Guter Zustand. Dust Jacket Condition: Kein Schutzumschlag. 175, 1 Seiten; Taschenbuch mit Gebrauchsspuren, kleiner Namensstempel auf Titelblatt - sonst gutes Exemplar; 2 Euro Versandkosten.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Gut. *** DIE MITTERNACHTSBÜCHER *** ALTERSBEDINGTE GEBRAUCHSSPUREN - LEICHT BESCHÄDIGT *** ---. nein.