James Courage (21 results)

Condition: Fair. 1954. First Edition. 270 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper and rear pastedown. Top corner of front free endpaper cut out. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends.

Condition: Good. 1954. 1954 Reprint. 270 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 102 pages. James Courage "Nothing to Make Us Mad" / Joyce Cary "Spring Song" / Felicien Marceau "The Armistice in Vienna" ,/ Margaret Lane "Sweet Cherub" / Michael Swan "Lorca's Gipsy" / William Sansom "Ivan Bunin: The Harp string Broken" / Ian Greenlees "Letter from Rome".

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. ix / 451 pp paperback a little rubbed around the edges, pages edges tanned, inscription to half title.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo. Very good in wrappers with bumped top corner and spine ends as well as a few wrinkles in spine cover.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: London Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 12 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: London Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 11 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: London Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 15 pages, 1 illustration. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: London Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 84 pages. Norman MacCaig "Three Poems" / Noel Devaulx "A Ball at Alfeoni's" / James Courage "An Evening for a Fish" / Alan Ross "Two Poems" / Peter Quennell "Odi et Amo" / Julian Symons "Meeting Wyndham Lewis"/ Bernard Spencer on Bitter Lemons / Paul Sieghart on Sound Broadcasting's Future . Carol Christopher Drake "House on the Northwest Coast".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 128 pages. Stephen Spender "A. Modern Writer In Search Of A Moral Subject" / C E M Joad "A Philosopher Looks At America" / E V Lucas "Recollections Of Charles Lamb" / W B Yeats "Supernatural Songs" (poetry) / W G Constable "Art In Industry - At Burlington House" / Julian Ward "Courage" / Arnold Palmer "The Two O'Clock At Manchester" / G R Malloch "The Hero".

FIRST EDITION. Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Hardback in dust jacket. 270pp. Brown cloth boards stamped in gilt to front and spine. Brown top-stain. Bookplate to front paste-down. Foxing to edges of text block and first and last few leaves. Jacket foxed and a little worn. Tears and slight loss to folds. *** Novel set in 1914 in a small New Zealand town by New Zealand born writer James Courage (1930-1963), best-known for his later novel A Way of Love (1959): the first gay novel by a New Zealander, banned for many years in his native country. Scarce in jacket, designed by Dick Hart.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. A couple of previous owner's names on front endpaper. Moderate foxing to book. Quite heavy foxing to dust-jacket. 30mm tear and 20mm chip at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival cover.; 270, [2 (blank)] pages. Brown boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 189 x 125mm. A novel. "Its events take place in a seaside town in New Zealand at the outbreak of the 1914 war - a war that perhaps brought the first signes of disintegration into a long-accepted code of moral behaviour prevalent in Britain's colonies no less than in Europe." - from dust-jacket blurb.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Basic Flavorings: Vinegar This book is in good or better condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages will be missing from the book. The spine of the book is still in great condition and the front cover is generally unmarked. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Shipping is normally same day from our UK warehouse. We offer a money back guarantee if you are not satisfied.

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, brown card boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt, VG (light soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems, light to moderate soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG- (moderate tanning & soiling, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, price clipped) (photos available on request).

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, red card boards, spine & front board lettered in white, VG (light bruising to edges & extrems, light to moderate foxing to pg edges, some foxing throughout); in d/w, VG (light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, price clipped, light to moderate foxing & soiling) (photos available on request).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition, First Printing (Stated). Very Good/Very Good Minus with edgewear and chipping to Dust Jacket and no marks to text. Chipping lagely confined to tail od spine, not affecting publisher's name. Scarce copy of what is considered New Zealand's first gay novel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Book club edition. Rare copy signed by author on half title page. First openly gay New Zealand author. Some creasing and edge wear to dust jacket. Minor loss to top right corner of front dust jacket. Age toning to dust jacket and some dark scuff marks. Price on front flap is unclipped. Age toning and some age spotting to text block. Minor creasing to a few pages. Pages are clean. Binding is strong and square. Book comes in protective mylar. Signed by Author(s).

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in blue, VG (light soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems, light to moderate soiling to eps & prelims/terminals); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling, moderate to heavy bruising to edges & extrems w moderate chipping) (photos available on request).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Scarce first edition. First openly gay New Zealand author. Inscription to front endpaper and dated August 1956. Minor loss to corners of dust jacket and head of jacket spine. Age toning to dust jacket and text block. Price on front flap is unclipped. Some age spotting to text block. Pages are clean. Binding is strong and square. Book comes in protective mylar. Inscribed by Author(s).