Jesty Simon (15 results)

First Edition. Octavo, original pale blue cloth over boards, red lettering on spine, stained top edge, deckle edge, color illustrated dust jacket. Rio-set novel about a young singer who "holds all men spellbound before her." Very Good, but for old New Brunswick, CA lending library stamps at front pastedown, staining to cloth at upper half of covers, in Very Good dust jacket, edge chips and wear, darkening to spine, price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good- dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Arthur Hawkins Jr. (illustrator). First American Edition. [moderately shelfworn, light-colored staining along front joint; jacket has paper loss at several corners, various small nicks and tears, some soiling and age-darkening to rear panel]. Somewhat phantasmagorical novel about a young fellow, the bastard son of a sailor, who grows up in a grimy quayside London cul-de-sac and falls in love with a "slum-sprite" girl whose lowlife father runs the titular pub. Returning some years later from military service, he finds that she's run off and become a celebrated chanteuse; he tracks her down to Rio, but she denies her younger identity, which of course forces him to spend the rest of the book trying to win her back. The New York Times reviewer, although admiring of the writer's style, was somewhat nonplussed by the novel, calling it "a novel from Mars . . . a strange creation -- terse, elliptical, obscure, peculiarly foreshortened" -- and yet "a rich and varied dish, succinctly portioned out and well flavored with excitement." "Simon Jesty" was apparently a pseudonym, but for whom, I dunno. The author's entire literary output (at least under that name) seems to have consisted of this novel and one other, "River Niger," published in 1935; the only possible clue to his identity is some kind of undefined connection with T.E. Lawrence, who provided a strange sort of preface to the latter book based on an advance reading of the manuscript. Great noir-ish jacket illustration by the great Arthur Hawkins Jr.

With a Prefatory Letter By T.E. Lawrence. 1st edition, 1935, in yellow cloth with green & red lettering & decoration. Ex boots library - trace of labels on front board & back pastedown. A few spots of foxing; binding firm; yellow cloth discoloured on boards, & browned on spine, with worn lettering Used - Good. Ex lib hardback (no dust jacket).

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1932 SIGNED by author 25 copies only on green cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 245, [6]. Number 13 of 20 copies signed by Simon Jesty. Original publisher's black buckram over green cloth boards lettered gilt at the spine. Very faint shelf wear: vg+.

LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by the author, limited to 20 numbered copies, this being un-numbered. NO DW. Green cloth, black buckram backstrip, gilt. Boards are very lightly soiled. Endpapers and page margins browned o/w clean and sound internally. VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition. 8vo. Dust jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins (unclipped; few tiny nicks). Very good. 245 pages. No signatures or bookplates. First published in London by Boriswood Ltd., in 1930. Quotation from Jack Lindsay on the leaf before contents page. A "cocktail" novel.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 256. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1932 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 256.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Impression of "this deservedly forgotten novel." (O'Brien) With a prefatory letter by T. E. Lawrence. Crown 8vo: (188 x 120): [8],11-287,[1]pp, with three publisher's promotions laid in. Original saffron linen, spine decorated and lettered in scarlet and French blue, top edge stained faded French blue, wanting the dust jacket. A spectacular unread survival of the author's second book, virtually flawless, tight, square, and clean throughout. O'Brien A163. Lawrence was asked to comment on this novel's suitability for publication. His report was less than favorable ("Jesty's world is incredibly small. It holds only about eight named characters who bump together whether they stay put or wander abroad. Wilkie Collins and his generation flourished on coincidences but Jesty out-Victoria's them. He has not one but twenty incredible coincidences"), but the publisher rather curiously decided to publish the book, with Lawrence's report as a preface. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original sea green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to black buckram spine, top edge gilt. 8vo. 7½'' x 5ĵ''. Contains 245 printed pages of text. Hand written number 20 of 20 Limited Edition copies on mould made paper SIGNED by the author 'Simon Jesty'. Couple of insignificant pencil notes about the book to the front paste down and in near Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1926-1945.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Boriswood, London in 1935. The BOOK is in Very Good++ condition. Light pushing at the spine ends. Light toning and dustiness to the text-block. A small area of toning corresponding to the wrapper chipped area at the upper spine end. Free from inscriptions and erasures. The WRAPPER is in Very Good+ condition being slightly marked and rubbed and a little dusty in places. A little loss at the upper spine end and upper front spine fold. With the 'Book Guild' recommendation sticker on the front as issued. The wrapper looks striking in the removable brodart archival cover. T.E. Lawrence's name features on the front panel of the dustwrapper and most of the blurb quotes from his preface. The three-page Preface is in fact the letter Lawrence wrote to the publisher recommending publication but prophesying commercial failure thereby. Very Scarce. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

First edition. Octavo. 287 pages. The three-page Preface is in fact the letter Lawrence wrote to the publisher recommending publication but prophesying commercial failure thereby.Edges spotted. Very good in the very scarce dustwrapper which is very good, chipped, slightly marked and rubbed, and with the Book Guild recommendation sticker on the front. Lawrence's name features on the front panel of the dustwrapper and most of the blurb quotes from his preface.

A novel with a prefatory letter by T. E. Lawrence. Pp. 288; yellow cloth, spine lettered and decorated in red & blue, with publisher's device in blind on lower board, the boards a trifle canted and slightly foxed, top fore-corners faintly bruised; top edges blue/grey (faded); dust wrapper, slightly soiled and browned, edges lightly rubbed and chipped, the backstrip extremities reinforced with paper on reverse, Book Guild recommendation sticker on front panel; a little light foxing; Boriswood, London, 1935. First trade edition. O'Brien A163. *The author's second book. The 'prefatory letter' is Lawrence's report on the novel after he read it in manuscript. According to O'Brien (p. 118) 'this deservedly forgotten novel has to its credit between its covers only the letter by Lawrence.'.

First edition, first impression One of a limited edition of 25 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. O'Brien A163-4. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. Binding rubbed and a little darkened at extremities, a small amount of wear to the head of the spine, uneven tanning to free endpapers. An excellent copy.

1 vols. 8vo. First edition, no. 2 of 25 copies printed on Pannekoek all-rag paper, signed by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. O'Brien A163 Red cloth over bevelled boards, spine titled in gilt, t.e.g, others untrimmed. Fine First edition, no. 2 of 25 copies printed on Pannekoek all-rag paper, signed by the author.