Fred Basnett (19 results)
Language: English
Published by Companion Book Club, London
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No DJ. Undated late 1960s. No dust jacket. Board covers with gilt titles. Light wear to covers.
More imagesPublished by Companion Book Club, 1967
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Companion Book Club, 1967
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Add to basketCondition: 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.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by The Companion Book Club, 1965
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Significant Darkening/Fading to spine of dust jacket. Lesser fading to spine of book. Some edge wear to edges of dust jacket.
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Add to basketCondition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Travels of a Capitalist Lackey (1965) by Fred Basnett Companion Book Club Edition Sold by: Crappy Old Books Step aside, earnest travel writers and polished jet-setters?Fred Basnett is here to take you on a ride that?s part travelogue, part satire, and entirely unfiltered. In Travels…of a Capitalist Lackey , this unrepentant everyman lumbers across Europe not in search of enlightenment, but in pursuit of cheap beds, strong drink, and the occasional warm meal. Armed with dry wit, a battered suitcase, and a healthy disdain for pretension, Basnett skewers tourist traps, bureaucracies, and cultural absurdities with a laugh-out-loud charm. From grimy pensions to unexpected conversations with fellow misfits, this 1960s jaunt is as much about surviving the journey as it is about the destinations. A forgotten gem reissued in all its gloriously outdated glory by Crappy Old Books ?perfect for anyone who prefers their travel tales served with sarcasm, skepticism, and a touch of socialist suspicion. Out of print, slightly musty, and well worth the trip.
Language: English
Published by Andre Deutsch, London, 1971
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketHard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: VG+, Wear, Bumps, Stamp,Foxing. Dust Jacket Condition: VG, PC, Wear,Tears,Foxing,Soil. 1st Edition. Comic drama. Author's first novel. Jacket by Dan Pearce. Expanded condition report/scan on request.
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Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1965
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- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1965 first edition hardback with unclipped dustajcket. Ex libris plate for former British actress Edwina Iredale, from whose library this copy originated. Interior in excellent clean order with no writing, marks or tears. Dustjacket well preserved beneath… clear plastic removable sleeve. Christopher Radley (illustrator).
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- First Edition
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Hardcover. 8vo. pp 208. Original publisher's green cloth lettered gilt at spine. Dust jacket designed by Dan Pearce. ISBN: 0233957464 Very good plus in clean, very good plus dust jacket.
Published by Companion Book Club, 1965
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Good. Travels of a Capitalist Lackey (1965) by Fred Basnett Companion Book Club Edition Sold by: Crappy Old Books Step aside, earnest travel writers and polished jet-setters?Fred Basnett is here to take you on a ride that?s part travelogue, part satire, and entirely unfiltered. In Travels of a Capitalist Lac…key , this unrepentant everyman lumbers across Europe not in search of enlightenment, but in pursuit of cheap beds, strong drink, and the occasional warm meal. Armed with dry wit, a battered suitcase, and a healthy disdain for pretension, Basnett skewers tourist traps, bureaucracies, and cultural absurdities with a laugh-out-loud charm. From grimy pensions to unexpected conversations with fellow misfits, this 1960s jaunt is as much about surviving the journey as it is about the destinations. A forgotten gem reissued in all its gloriously outdated glory by Crappy Old Books ?perfect for anyone who prefers their travel tales served with sarcasm, skepticism, and a touch of socialist suspicion. Out of print, slightly musty, and well worth the trip. Good condition overall, but the dust cover appears slightly corroded along front and back book board. THe dust jacket is still good, but you might want to treat it in some way, maybe with an inner layer of paper from the inside to reinforce it.
Published by The Companion Book Club, London, 1965
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Laura Books, Georgetown, SA, AustraliaLaura Books
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. slight wear to cover edges, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: some edge wear Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
More imagesPublished by The companion book club, 1965
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: GoldBookShelf, Burlington, ON, CanadaGoldBookShelf
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Hardcover with price unclipped DJ. Collector's de luxe edition. Excellent condition like new. All three edges publisher's stain. Handsome copy. 223pp.
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Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO60005977: 1971. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos fané, Intérieur bon état. 208 pages. Couverture illustrée en couleur. Ouvrage de bibliothèque avec tampon, recouvert d'un film plastique transparent. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.
Published by A. S. Barnes and Co.,, South Brunswick:, 1965
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. No indication of printing. Light foxing on top edge, else very good in a very good (age toning) dust jacket.
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hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. Cover spine faded. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Published by Andre Deutsch, London, 1971
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- First Edition
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Hard Cover. Condition: BOOK FINE. DUSTJACKET NEAR FINE. 1st Edition. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. 208 pages. 1ST PRINTING. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. Scarce.
More imagesPublished by Victor Gollancz.,, London,, 1977
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- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. 384pp. London set novel about a publisher of occult books -Qabbalah, Astral DImensions etc., The publisher's own retained copy with their stamp on title page reading Ôarchive copyÕ. No inscriptions, not price-clipped. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Barnes 1965. Jacket is worn and torn. Book is near VG with moderate wear, clean (somewhat yellowed) pages, firm binding with slight slant to spine, owner signature of Russia scholar Marshall Winokur.
Published by Andre Deutsch, 1971
- Hardcover
- Signed
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Inscr. and signed by author. 8vo. orig. cl. in discoloured d/w., else v.g. Inscribed by Author(s).
More imagesA Flight of Chariots; Comrade Don Camillo; A Kind of Anger; This Time Next Week; I Come from the Stone Age; The Jealous God; Winds of the Day; The Rough Magic; Airs Above the Ground; The Whip Hand; Travels of a Captialist Lackey; The Man in the Mirror; The Strode Venturer; The Penetrators; High Citadel; Caravans
Jon Cleary; Giovanni Guareschi; Eric Ambler; Leslie Thomas; Heinrich Harrer; John Braine; Howard Spring; Mary Stewart; Victor Canning; Fred Basnett; Frederick Ayer; Hammond Innes; Anthony Gray; Desmond Bagley; James A. Michenar
Published by The Companion Book Club 1963-1965, London, 1963
- Hardcover
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Sixteen works from the Companion Book Club, all in their charming unclipped dust wrappers, including two novels by Mary Stewart. Sixteen charming works published by the Companion Book Club, published between 1963-1965. In the publisher's original cloth, in the original unclipp…ed dust wrappers. A monthly subscription in which readers would receive bestselling works from the previous year, the Companion Book Club are known for their charming dust wrappers as seen with this smart collection. Despite many of the writers published being rather obscure today, many of them, such as Mary Stewart, were popular during the 60's. - A Flight of Chariots, written by Jon Cleary (1963).- Comrade Don Camillo and Don Camillo and the Devil, written and illustrated by Giovanni Guareschi (1964).- A Kind of Anger, written by Eric Ambler (1964).- This Time Next Week, written by Leslie Thomas, illustrated by Graham Byfield (1964).- I Come from the Stone Age, written by Heinrich Harrer (1964).- The Jealous God, written by John Braine (1964).- Winds of the Day, written by Howard Spring (1964).- The Rough Magic, written by Mary Stewart (1964)- Airs Above the Ground, written by Mary Stewart (1965).- The Whip Hand, written by Victor Canning (1965).- Travels of a Captialist Lackey, a travelogue to the USSR, written by Fred Basnett. Contains all four plates. Collated complete. (1965).- The Man in the Mirror, written by Frederick Ayer (1965)- The Strode Venturer, written by Hammond Innes (1965).- The Penetrators, written by Anthony Gray (1965).- High Citadel, written by Desmond Bagley (1965).- Caravans, written by James A. Michenar (1965). In the publisher's original cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, mostly smart, with the odd faint browning and fading mark, minimal to Harrer, Magic, Penetrators, Caravans, Ayer, Airs, and Winds, heavier spotting to Venturer and Whip. Bumping to the heads and tails of the spines, and to the extremities, heavier to Cleary spine, with creasing to center and a cracked tail of front joint. Minor cocking to front board of Caravans. Dust wrappers are mostly bright and clean, with minor fading and faint signs of browning to rear wraps and fly leaves, and to front wrappers of Spring and Gray. Chips to heads of Cleary and Magic rear wrapper joints, Airs head of spine, with a couple of closed tears to tail of Caravans rear wrapper joint, and of Magic wrapper joints, and a heavy crease to bottom of front wrapper. Creases to wrapper spines, and spots to wrapper spines of Venturer, Thomas and Guareschi. Browned graze to Magic front fly leaf. Small closed tear to top edge of Harrer front wrapper and small puncture to head of Harrer rear wrapper joint. Green mark to rear wrapper of Bagley. The odd faint spot and mark to end papers. Internally, firmly bound, with slight wear to hinge between half-title and title leaf of Magic. Pages are mostly bright and clean, with minor age toning. Slight spotting to first and final leaves of Jealous and Gaureschi. Good. Giovanni Guareschi; Graham Byfield (illustrator). book.
