Janson Smith Peter (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: As Is. First Edition Thus. First US edition, hardcover with significant marks from a previous owner, including stamps, notes, and pasted in cards to the pages and edges of the text block. The book also has a slight lean to the binding, bumps with peeling to the spine ends and cover corners, and mild sun toning to the spine. Overall, a Fair copy in an As Is, unclipped dust jacket, which has extensive tape repairs, largely chipped bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, splits along the fore edges, a 2.5" split along the lower front hinge, and rubbing with markings to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar. Additional images available upon request.

UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, octavo softcover (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.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition thus. [240]pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp ix, 100. Original publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in black. A few small faint marks to covers, extremities lightly rubbed in places. VG. With neat inscription on ffep, 'P. Janson-Smith/Dec. 44'. Peter Janson-Smith (1922-2016) became Ian Fleming's literary agent and would have been 22 in 1944. His English degree at St Edmund Hall, Oxford was compressed into just four terms, with two afternoons a week given over to gunnery practice. He spent the Blitz in charge of an anti-aircraft battery on Hackney Marshes. Very good.