Edited Stead (56 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good +. First Published. Rare publisher's review copy with inserted card. Some edge scuffs on book; with very nice dust jacket. A collection of stories. 552 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Included. pp.xxiii, 384 pages, an AS NEW hardback in a like dust-jacket [0582075548].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Stated: First American Edition. In addition contains complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with light gray boards, black spine cloth, and pink gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Overall very light mellow age toning to the papers. Dust jacket in likewise very good condition; ghost of shelf & edge wear; age toning to the white of the jacket; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, "Published posthumously, this is the last work of fiction by the writer whom Nobel Laureate Patrick White called "a novelist of genius." A magnificent novel of betrayal and self-delusion, madness and consuming passions, "I'm Dying Laughing" spans three decades and two continents as it re-creates to chilling effect the political turbulence of the American Left and the clamor and menace of the McCarthy Right. And not since her classic "The Man Who Loved Children" has Christina Stead fashioned two such large and memorable characters as Emily Wilkes and Stephen Howard. Emily, writer of successful pop novels and film scripts, is a woman of enormous but mercurial enthusiasms and a voracious appetite for experience, whose unflagging ebullience masks a darkness that will lead to disaster. . . . Savage, tragic, and mordantly funny, "I'm Dying Laughing" is manifestly the work of one of our great writers.". …

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Thus. 247 Pages.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Good. Edited by C. K. STEAD. Book in good conditions, inside clean with tanning pages. 285 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. Illustrated card covers. Numerous illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Introduction by Louis Untermeyer. Octavo. 658pp. Pale blue cloth stamped in dark blue lettering. Signature and stamp of noted American psychotherapist Henry Guze (a cofounder of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis) on the front fly, faint dampstain on top page edges, cloth is significantly dampstained and soiled, thus a good only copy lacking the dust jacket.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Very Good Soft Cover. Pages browned, no tears, gift inscription, no other writing.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good + Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper with light edgwear, light soiling.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Illustrated card covers, detached.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Illustrated pink card covers. Text in French. Matches the Books for Bairns series. 200 illustrations. Brinsley Le Fanu (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated pink card covers. The pictures have been coloured in.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated card covers, chipped on spine. Text in French. Matches the Books for Bairns series.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Volume 23, Number 4. Oblong octavo. 78pp. Fine in perfectbound wrappers. Features "two of her 'Salzburg Tales,' a new interview wiht the novelist, a tribute by Rebecca West, essays by Pybus, Sage, Tracy, poetry by Hamburger, Gittings, Cleary, [and] stories by Walter Nash and Ian Stephen" (from the cover).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Firmly bound, decorated blue cloth boards. Peeling, scuffing and dust spotting on cover and spine. Marks on the first and last few pages. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Firmly bound, decorated blue cloth boards. Peeling and scuffing on the spine. Small wear on cover. Marks on some pages. No jacket. illustrated (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Panther Paperback Edition / First Print. Paprback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 204pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light creasing to spine, light page tanning. (67/2).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in red boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 220pp. B/w illustrations throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (24/3).…

Softcover. Condition: Good. 3rd edition . The wraps are a little shelf rubbed. Internally there are highlighted marks throughout the body of the book. All pages are accessible. The binding is secure. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A bright copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. SOFTCOVER. 30x21cm. 64 pages. Flat spine. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref SD5. The New Review Magazine. September 1977. Volume 4. Number 42. Includes: Angela Carter - Family Life, Murdoch's Plato by Lorna Sage. Edited by Ian Hamilton. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Soft cover. 22.5x15.5cm. Pages are numbered 175 to 319. COVERS ARE RUBBED & FOXED. Clean and tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref XPG-JBS.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Soft cover. 22.5x15.5cm. 155 pages. Clean and tight. PAGE EDGES ARE FOXED. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref XP24.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. London: Stead's Publishing House, 1910. Undated, ca. 1910. The story of Tom Thumb illustrated with engravings. Books for the Bairns series. Pink softcover, just over 7" tall, 56 pages plus six pages of ads. Covers unevenly faded and lightly chipped around the edges, front cover detached, binding sound, pages age-browned and a bit brittle with some very light occasional edge tears confined to margins, no names or other markings. Soft Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. (1999) 146 pp. Original black cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents very nice.

First edition thus. Octavo hardcover: purple boards with white spine titling; purple endpapers; 552pp. Well-rubbed board edges, frayed corners and creasing along spine panel edges; owner's name; toned and spotted text block and page edges; mild wear to dustwrapper edges. Very good. Wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Octavo stapled booklet - The Palace with Several Sides (Collins/Angus & Robertson, North Ryde, 1990) - laid in. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None, as Issued. Reprint. 2 volumes. xxvii, 360; xxvii, pp361-697; index, appendices, tables. Light spotting to cloth, occasional light foxing. Originally published in 1904. All aspects of Japan in the Meiji period. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 192 pages. 8.26x5.82x0.63 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. 313 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in burgundy cloth (embossed to give the appearance of leather). The binding is rubbed and worn but sound. Front cover has a spot of smeared damp-staining. Front inner hinge is just starting, but the text block is sound and the text is clean.…