Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Blue cl., silver lettering on bkst., some letters sl. rubbed off, sl. cocked. 249pp.
Published by Macmillan, 1954
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1954. No Edition Remarks. 231 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Light thumb marking and noticeable tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Moderate splitting to joints. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
Condition: Good. 1954. Hardcover. Clean copy. Fine in dustjacket. DJ has some wear and tear to edges but remains good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Published by Macmillan, 1954
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Condition: Good. 1954. Hardcover. Clean copy. Fine in dustjacket. DJ has some wear and tear to edges but remains good. . . . .
Good+ hardback. Light edgewear, corners bumped, spine gently sunned, endpapers lightly foxed, contents clean and unmarked. 231 pp 12mo red cloth. The picture on this listing page is of the actual book for sale.
Published by London; Macmillan; 1954; 1st edition 0, 1954
Seller: Dial-A-Book, NARRABEEN, NSW, Australia
F. 8vo. hardcover. 231pp. very good+, minor foxing to endpapers. small bookseller sticker inside front cover. / very good d/w, chipped at corners, one 2.5cm tear.
Published by Published by Frederick Muller & Co. Ltd., London First UK Edition . 1957., 1957
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
First edition hard back publisher's original green cloth covers, gilt stamping to spine. 8vo 8" x 5˝" 279 pp. Former neat name to front end paper, small nick to top of upper panel. Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper with duplicate chip to top upper panel, not price clipped. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.
Published by Collins, London, 1968
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. 286, [2] pages. Vercors, pseudonym of Jean Marcel Bruller, (born Feb. 26, 1902, Paris, France-died June 10, 1991, Paris), French novelist and artist-engraver, who wrote Le Silence de la mer (1941; The Silence of the Sea), a patriotic tale of self-deception and of the triumph of passive resistance over evil. The novella was published clandestinely in Nazi-occupied Paris and served to rally a spirit of French defiance. Bruller was trained at the École Alsacienne and worked as a graphic artist and engraver until he was drafted into the French army after the outbreak of World War II. While recovering from a broken leg, he joined the Resistance, taking the nom de guerre Vercors (from the geographic region of that name). In 1941 he cofounded Éditions de Minuit, an underground press devoted to boosting morale among the French and maintaining a literary resistance movement. Thousands of copies of Le Silence de la mer, the first book published by the press, circulated throughout occupied France. The story of the French intellectual resistance has so far been shrouded in silence, as were its activities during the war. The most audacious of these activities was the founding of the Editions de Minuit. In this unique Resistance venture one man played four leading roles. Desvignes (founder of the press), Jean Bruller (artist and engraver), Vercors (an author), and Drieu (a printer)--that man was Jean Marcel Bruller. Les Éditions de Minuit is a French publishing house which still publishes today. Les Éditions de Minuit was founded by Jean Bruller and Pierre de Lescure in 1941, during the German occupation of northern France . The media and publishing were controlled and censored by the Nazi s. Les Éditions de Minuit was started to circumvent the censorship, and so was an underground publisher until the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944. Le Silence de la mer by co-founder Bruller (who used the pseudonym Vercors) was the first book published (1942). Distribution was by being passed from person to person. Presumed First U.K. Edition, First printing.
Published by Little Brown, Boston., 1953
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, as stated. First printing. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. The jacket is faded on spine and has some edge wear and a couple of small closed tears. Jean Marcel Adolphe Bruller (26 February 1902 10 June 1991) was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure. Born to a Hungarian-Jewish father, during World War II occupation of northern France he joined the Resistance and his texts were published under the pseudonym Vercors. Several of his novels have fantasy or science fiction themes. The 1952 novel Les Animaux dénaturés (translated variously into English as You Shall Know Them, Borderline, and The Murder of the Missing Link) was made into the film Skullduggery (1970) starring Burt Reynolds and Susan Clark, and examines the question of what it means to be human. The English language version, translated by his wife Rita Barisse. A later novel was a finalist for the 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Fiction, Stacks, B.