Cauldwell Frank (10 results)

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Tsarouchis, Yanni (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. New edition published in the Gay Modern Classics series. Originally published in 1956 by John Murray under the name Frank Cauldwell. Paperback Original with French flaps. The spine is slightly faded but otherwise only light surface and edge wear to the covers. Page edges are slightly browned and there are two small spots to the inside of the front cover. The pages are clean and unmarked. Cover illustration by Yanni Tsarouchis. First printing.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Illustrated by Patrick Proctor. (illustrator). 1st US Ed. Short novel "The steamy squalor of modern India and a twenty-year-old mystery surrounding a young woman' death provide the setting for this brilliantly deceptive story about a genteel old man, his sensual young bride and his brooding son.the 20 year old mystery surrounding a young woman's death." 142p. illus. Crisp unread copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine - Price Clipped. 1st UK Ed. "Act of Darkness, a novel of evil and atonement that probes the inmost secrets of the human heart, is set amidst the festering resentments of colonial India in the 1930s. 332p. Name of previous owner on ffep, else fine. Book.

First edition. 12mo. 215 pp. Cloth binding in dustwapper, chip upper edge, overall very good condition. (76791).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. VG overall with some very light spotting to page edges and a Kuwaiti embassy stamp to ffep! The jacket has some grubbiness and spotting and a number stamped to front flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good,Slight Chips & Tears. 1st US Edition. The story of a splendidly handsome young Greek, Spiro, and of the three people he brought to ruin. He is picked up out of the gutter, fed, housed and educated by an American idealist, Irvine who is rich, complex, over-educated, a devout Catholic struggling against his instincts. Spiro, by contrast is completely cynical and amoral. All he wants now is an easy life with sensual pleasures, and he goes about getting what he wants with the sureness and ruthlessness of an animal. He brings about the downfall of his benefactor and the death of an Englishwoman who cannot resist the startling beauty of the Greek god.Finally he destroys even the young Greek girl whom he married for her money.248 p.Neat copy, paper age-toned, DJ price clipped and chipped.

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, red card boards, spine lettered in gilt; [4] + 215 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges & eps; some tanning); in d/w VG- (light to moderate soiling & rubbing, moderate bruising to edges & extrems with moderate chipping, esp to spine).

hardback in protected dustjacket, both in very good condition though dustjacket is frayed at edges and some tears on top and bottom of spine, back is slightly grubby and small stain top corner, book edges some slight foxing.Previous owners name on fep. Jacket designed by Osbert Lancaster. Youngs no 621*. Important 50's British gay novel by Francis King.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Paperback Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. CAULDWELL, Frank [215] pp. John Murray 1956 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" Jacket designed by Osbert Lancaster A novel of expats in Greece, "born out of the sense of liberation that came to me on first setting foot in Athens." - King. Young 621*.