Eric Mervyn (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing #S345 of this collection of sci-fi short stories. A paperback original. Featured are Danse Macabre by Mervyn Peake, Blood Offering by John Kippax, Same Time, Same Place by Mervyn Peake, Master of Chaos by Michael Moorcock, Wednesday's Child by William Tenn, Dial "O" for Operator by Robert Presslie, The Flowers of the Forest by Brian W Aldiss, Fresh Guy by E.C. Tubb, The Garden of Paris by Eric Williams and The Graveyard Reader by Theodore Sturgeon. Light rubbing and scratches to the black cover. Light reading crease near the spine. Age toning to the pages. Light edgewear. In Very Good Condition.

Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 77 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. No dj. Text in German. Light foxing on page edges.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Largely good condition copy, some spotting to covers. Previous owner has repaired spine with tape. Content clear. A nice copy.

Wrappers. Condition: Fine. Mervyn Wilson (illustrator). 1st Edition. 14pp including full page illustrations in colour.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages. (M21).

Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 77 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. No dj. Text in German. Small tear on top of spine. Slightly bumped cover board corners.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 502 pp. Tightly bound copy with clean and crisp pages. Clean text. Minimal external wear with cuts in places. Creased spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Red covers illustrated with gold, black and orange. Spine is slightly sun faded. Corners are lightly bumped and worn, wear to edges and spine ends. Contains all 12 listed colour plates including the fold out frontis 'The March of Science As Shown by a Comparison Between 1912 and 1922' Laconia vs a Modern Liner, and many more black and white illustrations. Title page and front end-paper are a little lose, paper over rear cover inner joint is wholly split. Covers are lose but still attached, binding is otherwise sound. Pages are clean, paper is a little darkened, plates are clean and bright. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 08120124032. All our books are sent by tracked mail. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Printed in the U.S.A. First Printing of the Ungar edition. [1949 on the copyright page is from the original first edition: "Republished by arrangement with Henry Holt." Library of Congress # 57-12322 may indicate date is 1957.] Foreword, Introduction: The Bead Game, Joseph Knecht's Posthumous Writings; 502 pages. The original green cloth is very good, with corners square and gilt lettering and decorative lines bold on the spine. Top edge of text-block, colored green, shows a touch of fading, with a bit of toning and one clear 'freckle' to the fore-edge. Interior is creamy-bright and completely clean. The original unclipped ($5.00) dust jacket, printed in red and green, shows superficial rubbing, and sunning to the spine and folds; all text still legible. The publisher's address at the base of the rear panel is earlier than that which appeared on a different Ungar dust jacket with identical title and copyright pages. [Please see my 7 images of the actual book.] Hesse makes his hero say: "'The Game, as I interpret it, encompasses the player at the conclusion of his meditation in the same way as the surface of a sphere encloses its centre, and leaves him with the feeling of having resolved the fortuitous and chaotic world into one that is symmetrical and harmonious'---yet the Castilian Order does not in the last resort satisfy him as an answer to the problem of 'how to live'. This interpretation gives us a clue to the symbolic meaning of the 'Glasperlenspiel'---the idea of macrocosmos and microcosmos---but the conflict remains."---from the Foreword. As with every book from my father's collection, tipped-in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly with tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. The author's Utopian masterpiece and one of the outstanding works of 20th century European literature. The basis for Hesse's 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. First US edition, first printing of the novel "Das Glasperlenspiel" in an English translation by Mervyn Savill. Published a full 20 years before the more recent translation by Richard and Clara Winston. There is no "First Edition" statement, because the book was printed using British sheets. The copyright page states "Copyright 1949 by Francis Aldor 2 Mount Row, London, W.1" with the name and address of the London printer at bottom of the page. No additional printings are noted. The book is near fine in full black cloth. Clean, tight, no markings. The unfaded black jacket is very good, price-intact, with some shallow chipping at the extremities. Included with the book is a printed invoice from prestigious Heritage Book Shop of Los Angeles dated 1996 when the book sold for $250.00. Hesse won the Nobel Prize for this work and others such as Demian, Steppenwolf and Siddhartha. He was a friend of Carl Jung. Scarce in this condition, a nice item for the Hesse collector. See photos.