Michael Orsler (10 results)

Condition: Good. 1st ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Light toning to page ends. DJ with some edge wear, light soiling and creasing.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: VG++, Ink Name, Mild Offset. 1st Edition. Satire. Jacket by Colin Andrews. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Condition: Good. 1967. First Published. 252 pages. Signed by the author. White dust jacket over red cloth. Signed by the author with dedication to front free endpaper. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Minor tanning to spine and edges. Some bleaching to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Loss to spine ends. Some tanning to spine. Visible rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Price clipped. Publication of 206 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. The boards are in good condition. There are scuffed marks on the first and last blank pages. There is insect damage on the bottom edges of the last 12 pages, no text has been affected. All pages are accessible. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 205 pages. Jacket design by Colin Andrews. Price-clipped dust-jacket, but a fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1971 Hutchinson hardback 1st edition- Very good clean tight binding in very good unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ex. lib. with all the usual stamps and marks. Remains of library label on ffep. Dj in protective cover which is taped to the endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Orsler, Michael. The imperial room. First edition. London: Longmans, 1967. Hardback, VG, in GOOD, unclipped dustjacket, sunned to spine with a few marks and stains; remains of old label on reverse. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong. 253pp. Light stains to top and front edges of page block. Contents clean and bright. Michael Orsler (born 1931) is the author of three novels. The first The Imperial Room was published in 1967, when he returned from working in Hong Kong s education service, and is a satire on the colony s last days under British rule. The novel won an Arts Council Bursary of £2,000 in 1968, and on the strength of it Michael, who also worked as a secondary school teacher in Bury and Sudbury, wrote two more novels the Big Dig, about archeology, and Rhumb Line, about world travel on an ocean liner. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp.253. Fiction. Author's first novel:set in a bustling Colonial city in the Far East "the intrigues, bickerings, jealousies, love affairs,and fantasies of an ill-assorted group of Europeans who compose the staff of the city's austere Museum." Signed presentation from the author: "To Norman Scarfe 11 September 1967 (bearing in mind p.59 of Remembrance of Things Past) with all good wishes Michael." Loosely inserted a signed note-card from Michael Howard, All Souls College, Oxford saying that the book has 'a rich vein of comic fantasy. now I'll know what to expect in Hong Kong.' . From the Library of Norman Scarfe, a noted historian of East Anglia, and particularly of his native Suffolk. Very good indeed in close to very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has slight wear and fading at spine. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Rare title - good clean firm interior with no marks, a little faint foxing to e/papers and a neatly inscribed name to front section, faintly tanned to closed edge of pages; boards show two tiny worm-holes, one to top front and one to lower rear as shown in photos, otherwise of vg clean firm appearance; d/j has standard shelfwear as shown, title faded to spine area and two tiny holes to rear, faintly dulled in general but all intact with no large tears, covered with a new removable sleeve-protector, unclipped./.